On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 23:20, lesleyb <lesl...@herlug.org.uk> wrote: > I had previous programming experience when I started learning Perl > and I was quickly introduced to the 'unless' construct. I confess > to finding it both cute and entirely obvious.
Yeah, seriously. You know, if someone can understand a regular expression then a word that behaves exactly the same way as they've been familiar with since about age 2 shouldn't cause any problems. I'm with Uri on showing what's going on - what excites programmers is the stuff you can do with the language. Either that or they're probably not programmers. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats.html > If this is perl, then we've lost. Er, Perl "lost" a long time ago. import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read(files) Paul