[mdlug] Forget Perl, I'm switching to LOLCODE!

[Morris, Tim]

That looks like a good book... I may pick one up myself. 

If you don't want to pay $45 for it, you can get it from half.com for
about $30 (used). 


--  Tim Morris - UGS PLM Software

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Ingles, Raymond
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [mdlug] Forget Perl, I'm switching to LOLCODE!


> From: Joseph Vartanian

> No, it's not wrong that you can read it.  This is actually much more 
> legible than some of the Perl code that people write.

 The problem with Perl is that "There's more than one way to do it!"
That's a good thing in some ways, but like C++, most programmers end up
using just parts of the whole language, subsets. 

 For detailed thoughts on this, see here:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch04s02.html

 The key quote: "Some designs that are not compact have enough internal
redundancy of features that individual programmers end up carving out
compact dialects sufficient for that 80% of common tasks by choosing a
working subset of the language. Perl has this kind of
pseudo-compactness, for example. Such designs have a built-in trap; when
two programmers try to communicate about a project, they may find that
differences in their working subsets are a significant barrier to
understanding and modifying the code."

 That's kept me from really working to learn Perl, despite its utility.
So I asked for this book for my birthday:

 http://www.amazon.com/Minimal-Perl-UNIX-Linux-People/dp/1932394508

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                      (313) 227-2317

     If the Bush administration can't sort New Orleans out,
               what are their chances in Iraq?

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