On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 08:33 , Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
> Janek Schleicher wrote:
>> Drieux wrote at Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:07:51 +0200:
>>> p2: but I will religiously stand by the driving thesis:
>>>
>>> "would you really want to maintain that code?"
>>>
>>> having come back and 'blanched' at code that was no longer as 'readable'
[..]
>> allthough your point of view is correct, too,
>> especially thinking to "cold perlers".
As a General rule of thumb, try to take
your perler's out of the freezer and let
them thaw for a few hours before cooking.....
You should also cook them completely - this
should destroy most of the bacteriological contaminants
that come with perlers.....
> Possibly just a matter of what you used first??
As was noted in the movie 'the hunt for red october' -
the computer started out as a seismic system, and when
confused 'runs home to mother'. But that is also a part
of why we put the human in the loop - to keep on the
watch for things not quite defined the way they 'have
always been'....
Why if computers could code,
We'd be out of a Job....
> I started with the form drieux suggested, and only recently
[..]
i totally agree with you completely, actually.
there are many things that I too have started out by
following drieux's advice that I clearly will not do now,
or do some times, or do as the spirit moves me...
I was once a dogmatist about
for ( my $i=0; $i < $max ; $i++ ) {
#
# do a defined c-style for numeric sequencing
#
}
XOR
foreach (@array) {
#
# string foo from arrays
#
}
but....
Now I tend to be more dogmatic about
for my $local_var_name_here ( @array ) {
}
since clearly it is, well, intuitively superior....
> One other point, with people who do not pay close attention to their
> variable names, or poor spellers, the $1, $2, etc. method may prove more
> efficient from a devel standpoint as it will likely introduce fewer
> mistakes of this kind since perl is handling the naming, etc.
[..]
IF ONLY there were some:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w -Dwhat_I_MEANT_to_type
use strict_with_cheats_as_needed_to_do_What_I_REALLY_REALLY_MEANT;
But then I guess I would also want
use Install_From_CPAN_What_I_Need_To_Fix_The_Boo_Boo;
so that my code would be self correcting in all the
right places and all the right ways....
ciao
drieux
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cf:
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Weird/rants/theBeautifulMindProblem.html
which may not be 'the cure'....
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