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From: Adam Ruth <adam.ruth@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:15:21 -0600
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In article <e749549b.0409271234.1c2b4b92@posting.google.com>,
 kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote:

> Adam Ruth <adam.ruth@mac.com> wrote in message 
> news:<adam.ruth-CEAF21.08210127092004@localhost>...
> > In article <b47de02.0409261812.659a923b@posting.google.com>,
> >  duggar@mit.edu (Keith H Duggar) wrote:
> > I think that has more to do with Perl's unreadability than the syntax.  
> > I've 
> > never met a "great" Perl 
> > programmer (read, Perl hacker), who wasn't completely confused by their 
> > own two month old code.  
> 
> Then you've never met a great Perl programmer.  The great programmers
> I've known can write crystal-clear code in almost any language, with
> very little need for explanatory comments beyond class and function
> descriptions.

Not so, I've met plenty of great Perl programmers.  It's not them I was 
referring to.  I was referring to "great" Perl programmers, or Perl 
hackers in reality.  People with no sense of engineering.  I mustn't 
have made that clear enough...  and I wasn't even writing in Perl!

> 
> I've read a lot of CPAN modules and found most of them pretty clear. 
> But there are some very high-level PERL modules that allow one to do a
> lot with a little code, and it takes a little effort to learn what
> those modules do.




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Adam Ruth
adamruth at mac dot com