Hi there, On Sun, 7 Aug 2016, Les Mikesell wrote:
> You can use a variety of different styles when writing perl. It can > look like C, shell, awk, or ... About fifteen years ago I was contracting on an early Web project for a legal company in Los Angeles with about four million users. We used Apache, mod_perl and a number of Perl toolkits, some rather obscure. One day, one of the more technical managers glanced over my shoulder at some Perl code as I was writing it. He said, "You know, when you write Perl, I can understand it!" I took that as the greatest of compliments. I replied, "That's because I'm a C programmer." I've always regretted not saying that I believe that it's very important that code should be easy to understand. This is something that's been obvious to me ever since I started programming the Motorola 6800 in assembler in the mid- 1970s, even if only because I had to persuade my boss that it would be sane to let my new-fangled gadgets loose in a nuclear power plant. I always strive for code to be easy to understand. When I go back to it a decade or two later (it happens) I can still understand it. -- 73, Ged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
