in reply to (Ovid - accidental obfuscation?)Re: Perverse Unreadable Code
in thread Perverse Unreadable Code

Side note: do any monks use English for any production code?

Yes, but not religiously. We use it for some of the lesser-used variables, such as saying $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR instead of $/. But we still use $_ instead of $ARG.

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Re: anyone use English?
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 26, 2001 at 00:00 UTC

    No, never. If I had to go through the trouble of learning all those arcane variables, why shouldn't everyone else?

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