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 > Yossi > > > This e-mail message is intended for the recipient only and contains > information which is CONFIDENTIAL and which may be proprietary to ECI > Telecom. If you have received this transmission in error, please inform us by > e-mail, phone or fax, and then delete the original and all copies thereof. > Wow, CONFIDENTIAL information! http://mail.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2011-October/012112.html Regards, Shlomi Fish > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity Jack: Hi Sophie! Sophie: Don’t “Hi, Sophie!” me. Jack: Don’t “Don’t ‘Hi, Sophie!’ me” me! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
