Bruce Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: I'm not a good enough coder to judge issues of style...
: Mostly grab a tweak stuff from cookbooks, BUT isn't
: TMTOWTDI kind of core to PERL?
Yes. you are correct.
: Or is PERL turning into Python?
I don't know Python. Though I doubt it.
: BYW, I like the how-tos
There's the rub. Too many list members will like
the articles and save them. They may incorporate the
ideas in their own programs.
The idea of this list is to provide help to
beginner perl programmers. It would be a disservice to
them if anyone knowingly allowed poor programming
habits to emerge because of the list.
To many of us, we are at war. Perl is so easy to
learn that many have adopted very poor programming
skills and produced very poor quality programs. It is
important to many of us to turn the tide of poor perl
programming habits.
Yes, perl allows you to perform the tasks in this
article, but these tasks represent poor practices except
under certain conditions. Those conditions were not
outlined by the author.
IMO, the author can be likened to a parent telling
a child she may defecate in any room in the house.
While technically true, I think you can see the problem
of a ten year old defecating in the living room with
company present. It is a disservice to the child.
IMO, this particular article is a disservice to
beginning perl programmers. I can only hope that as many
people read the comments as read the author's article.
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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