Hi Yossi,

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:09:18 +0200
Yossi Itzkovich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In the intro to the 6th edition of "Learning Perl", I found the following 
> sentence:
> "Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write programs up 
> to 128 lines long-roughly the size of 90% of the Perl programs in use today".
> 
> I would like to get feedback from people regarding the last part of the 
> sentence. Do you think it's true ?
> 

well, to quote http://www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html , “42.7
percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.”. That put aside, I would 
expect most Perl programs out there to be relatively short, but it's hard to 
know where is the 90% threshold. 

See what Mark Jason Dominus has written about one-liners here:

http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-39

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Wow, CONFIDENTIAL information!

http://mail.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2011-October/012112.html

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish 


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