If your as lazy as I am and hate to type you wouldn't have this debate.......I can't remember ever writing a script that I started from scratch for years now. I almost always start with an existing script cause 9 times out of 10 it has something in it I'll need anyway.......and I am the cut 'n' paste king of all times. I even have an array of smart key shortcuts on all of my computers.
But even still I don't think it would bug me to type in 2 little words :o) Charles PS I am know as the slopiest programmer in the world just for your edufication but I beleive it's the end results that gets me by :o) Ovid wrote: > To all: > > Okay, there have been a few comments about the merits of using strict, but I thought >I would toss > up a meta-argument. > > It's true that posters who post code without "strict" are generally reminded by >several replies > that they should have used strict, but the respondents also usually try to answer >the question. > Personally, I would never think of dropping a note to Lincoln Stein for not using >strict in CGI.pm > or Damian Conway for not using strict in anything. People who are reminded to use >strict are > usually (not always) people for whom strict would be an enormous benefit. > > As for Perlmonks (brought up in one reply), the ones who have been around for a >while are usually > very concerned not just about correctness (a program does what it should and no >more), but also > about quality (a program that works can still be an unmaintainable piece of crud). >So, when I see > someone who failed to use strict and then typed $recieved, I'll point out the >misspelling, but > I'll also point out that using strict would have caught that error *at compile >time*, rather than > have them pull their hair out for hours trying to figure out what's buggy. > > Quality, thus, tends to lead to correctness. I could go on for hours as to why this >is the case, > but really, who *doesn't* want correct programs? > > I strongly recommend to every Perl programmer that they should hang out at >Perlmonks. Why? > Because of a saying amongst mathematicians (which applies very strongly to >programmers, too): > > First-rate mathematicians want to hang around first-rate > mathematicians. Second-rate mathematicians want to hang > around third-rate mathematicians. > > The reason for that is left as an exercise for the reader :) > > Cheers, > Curtis "Ovid" Poe > > ===== > "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ > Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl: > push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//; > shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
