in reply to very tight perl syntax

If by "very tight" you mean "concise", perhaps Special Variables, Command-Line Options, and One-Liners will help you.

Also see Reverse-Engineering Stuff, esp. Becoming familiar with a too-big codebase?

HTH,

planetscape

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: very tight perl syntax
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 03, 2011 at 21:55 UTC

    I think your advice is good as usual but without evidence to the contrary I suspect "very tight" means "written by a self-absorbed bastard with a background in C and shell scripting who thinks 2 letters is a bit on the long side for variable names, field-specific formulas and algorithms do not need comments because everyone else should at least have a Masters in the same discipline, multiple shell operations are better than CPAN modules and ought to be inlined with Perl in a style from 1997, and no operation should ever, under any condition, be tested for failure, success, or security because what would be the point, right?"

    ...quoth the hacker who has inherited too many code-bases written by PhDs.

[reply]

      Yeah, I suspect you are probably right.

      HTH,

      planetscape
[reply]

In Section Perl Monks Discussion