Fwd: Re: OT pedagogy and the beginners@perl.org mailing list

2013-06-16 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: Rheotorical question -- which program would you rather write? 1. 1,000 lines of assembly. 2. 100 lines of C. 3. 10 lines of Java. 4. 1 line of Perl. Someone wrote: > If this is your best point... I believe this is one of Perl's best points. :-) As I understand it, Perl is not a

OT pedagogy and the beginners@perl.org mailing list

2013-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/13/13 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: That's nice and dandy, but please don't publish the products of your "one-liners turned into scripts" here without cleaning them up first, because there are beginners on this mailing list who need to learn good practices from the code and posts here, and code