[oclug]Really basic Perl help

Dave O'Neill dmo at acm.org
Fri Jan 10 01:17:25 EST 2003


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:11:18PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 09/01/03 Ahmed Masud did speaketh:
> 
> > perl sucks :) use flex instead
> 
>     [unbelievably long unmaintainable code snipped]

You can write unmaintainable code in _any_ language.  Some languages make it
a little harder than others, but not much.  A sufficiently determined or
dumbfounded individual can always manage to write incomprehensible code
regardless of the tool used.

-dave0
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