Re^2: Meaning of Maintanability and Functionality in Coding Perl

You're not writing code for the Obfuscated Perl contest (would any sensible programming manager hire somebody who put "winner 4 years on a row in the World Obfuscated <language of choice> contest" as a major award in their resume?).

Aren't the winners of those contests the ones who are the most intimate with the given language? Note that Mr. Wall has won an IOCCC award, not once, but twice.

Add use English, and use the English language forms for things like $|.

use English does signify one important fact; the code that follows was written by a complete Perl newbie. And that's important information for any maintainer.

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Re^3: Meaning of Maintanability and Functionality in Coding Perl by swampyankee (Parson) on Oct 18, 2005 at 20:39 UTC
use English does signify one important fact; the code that follows was written by a complete Perl newbie. And that's important information for any maintainer Frequently code maintenance is performed by programmers with little experience or little experience in the language. Even if the original programmer has eons of Perl experience, the person maintaining the code may be trying to figure out a Perl program with Learning Perl by one elbow. Aren't the winners of those contests the ones who are the most intimate with the given language? Note that Mr. Wall has won an IOCCC award, not once, but twice. I've never read Lary Wall's resume...does he consider winning the IOCCC contest a major achievement? Again, the chances are the maintainers are less experienced than the original programmers. Eschew esoterica. emc	[reply]

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Re^3: Meaning of Maintanability and Functionality in Coding Perl
by swampyankee (Parson) on Oct 18, 2005 at 20:39 UTC

use English does signify one important fact; the code that follows was written by a complete Perl newbie. And that's important information for any maintainer

Frequently code maintenance is performed by programmers with little experience or little experience in the language. Even if the original programmer has eons of Perl experience, the person maintaining the code may be trying to figure out a Perl program with Learning Perl by one elbow.

Aren't the winners of those contests the ones who are the most intimate with the given language? Note that Mr. Wall has won an IOCCC award, not once, but twice.

I've never read Lary Wall's resume...does he consider winning the IOCCC contest a major achievement? Again, the chances are the maintainers are less experienced than the original programmers. Eschew esoterica.

emc

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