in reply to Re^2: top ten things every Perl hacker should know
in thread top ten things every Perl hacker should know
I think its reasonable to assume that the person who has to maintain your code is at least an average Perl programmer. The purpose of coding, commenting, and documentation isn’t to teach Perl to beginners.
Not according to every anecdote I've run across, including those I've been personally involved in. When I was contracting at a large outsourcing firm, my maintenance tasks included SAS, PL/1, and COBOL code. I had never even seen code in any of these before. A much better assumption than assuming the person who has to maintain your code is an average Perl programmer is assuming that she|he will be trying to make sense out of code with Learning Perl in one hand and a jar of ibuprofen in the other
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