Seriously, I took it as just funny... get off your soapbox. I'm fairly sure that the comment was just in good fun.
As a systems admin, i've had to "decipher" my share of perl, and while it "can" be written great, it "can" also be written poorly. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 AM, John SJ Anderson <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote: >>> On Feb 12, 2013 7:05 PM, "Rajeev Prasad" <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> what is the advice just for obfuscating code? platform is solaris. > > I think you're getting the idea, at this point, that this is > considered a bad idea, regardless of what platform you're targeting. > > You may have an actual issue, but unless you explain to us what you > thought you were going to achieve via obfuscating your code, we're not > going to be able to help with that. > > Also, I'm a little disappointed in the "it's Perl, it's already > obfuscated" answers. If you think the Perl you're writing is > pre-obfuscated, you're doing it wrong. My Perl code is idiomatic, easy > to read and understand, and as clear, if not more so, than code > written in any other language. One of the common criticisms of Perl is > that it's a "write-only language". This is, frankly, bullshit -- but > having people on a list aimed at helping Perl beginners promote that > bullshit only makes it more odorous. Please stop. > > thanks, > john. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
