Re^3: perl experts .. plz

The script I wrote conjugates the verbs in the present tense. What makes you think it conjugates the verbs in the past tense? It would be trivially easy to make it conjugate the verbs in the past tense (just change "present" to "past" in my program) but that is not the issue.

The issue is - in my opinion - that even if you make your program run, it will still not run correctly, as it does not take into account how to deal with irregular verbs or certain well-known grammatical exceptions. If you wish to take care of that, then you will end up with a program very similar to mine.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re^4: perl experts .. plz by GotToBTru (Prior) on Mar 25, 2016 at 18:28 UTC
The point here is not conjugating verbs. The student has been presented with a simplistic problem in order to develop skills in handling strings and arrays using Perl. Let's get him up to speed on `for` and `split`. If he can't master those, CPAN won't be of much use to him. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: perl experts .. plz by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 25, 2016 at 19:13 UTC
I understood that much. I only wanted to show that with little or no effort one could get this program to work correctly. Of course the teacher is to blame by giving such a bad example to start with. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]