And they say perl is obfuscated!!! I liked almost every other example in that thread far better, what good does concise do if you have to learn a whole knew language to read it? I don't program Python or Ruby but the examples in those languages should make sense to any programmer. Below is my perl code, i think its easier to read, easier to expand, and easier to understand than the arc example. The only thing is it isn't shorter! Should I re-write it in a compact form like his? That seems insane.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
use CGI::Session;

my $cgi     = new CGI;
my $session = new CGI::Session();

print $session->header();

$session->param('name', $cgi->param('name')) if ($cgi->param("name"));
$session->clear('name')                     if ($cgi->param("c"));

if ($cgi->param("m") eq 'show') {
        print "You said:", $session->param("name"), " ", $cgi->a({href
+=>'?c=1'},'Start Over');
} elsif ($session->param("name")) {
        print $cgi->a({href=>'?m=show'},'See what you said');

} else {
        print $cgi->startform, $cgi->textfield('name'), $cgi->submit('
+Submit'), $cgi->endform;
}

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In reply to Re: Take the Arc Challenge by eric256
in thread Take the Arc Challenge by kyle

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