You see this is what I don't like about the way perl is being used these days... what a huge load of verbose and difficult to understand mass of code that is!

Why oh why, do you need all that complexity to do a simple task? WHY???? I refuse to learn how to write code which has to be that verbose, without some sort of damn good reason!

Perl attracted me with its elegance and simplicity, but then when I dig into it, the way it's apparently "supposed to be done" is neither elegant or simple! My aversion to code like the above, is exactly the same reason that I'm NOT a Java coder.

What ever happened to keep it simple?

In reply to Re^2: Processing Two XML Files in Parallel by Logicus
in thread Processing Two XML Files in Parallel by tedv

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