Yes, I do know that other languages have obfuscation contests.
I would stand by what I said about what the community views as cool bleeds into the communities practices at work.

With Perl, I always get the feeling that maintainability is seen as a bolt-on afterthought that has only a very small impact on the languages design (its feature set and syntax). Don't be surprised if the average user does the same.
- Paddy. 
--
    Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. 
    Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, 
    you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

    —Brian W. Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language and the "K" in "AWK"

In reply to Re^5: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by paddy3118
in thread Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by oyse

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