[mdlug] Another sed/regex question

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Aaron Kulkis

> Michael Mikowski wrote:
> > No language is read only.

> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

> In practice, there is.

Indeed, languages vary in how readable and comprehensible they wind up being to others. Forth, for example, is also famous for being hard to decipher. If anyone doubts the principle, look up INTERCAL...

And, I'll bust out one of my old email sigs: "Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else."- Eagleson's Law

Perl has issues because of syntax, but also scope. The language is big enough ("There's More Than One Way To Do It!") that developers often wind up writing code in mutually-incomprehensible subsets of the whole language. C++ has issues along those lines, too...
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