Far from being true. Althoug I try to use modules (as much as I can), I often find myself with 1000+ lines.
YG On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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