Twisted wrote: > On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is possible to write maintainable Perl. > > Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported > sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO). > > Still, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (And no, a > fuzzy picture of something that might be a giant serpent-like thing in > the loch, or equivalent, does not constitute "extraordinary > evidence".) >
How about "I caught a very small one, but it belonged to a former employer, so I couldn't keep it for display."? I wrote a Perl script to process logic analyzer traces for some hardware engineers. While I was out of the office, they found they needed to process a new record type. They didn't want to delay their work until I got back, and one of the EEs knew Perl, so he modified my script. The change was done correctly. It not only worked. Except for a couple of comments calling my attention to the changes, it looked as though the new record type had always been there. Patricia -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
