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Perl Programmer located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Active member of Copenhagen Perl Mongers.
reversethis-{gro.napc} {ta} {nbsanoj}
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AOL IM: BJonasN (Add Buddy, Send Message)
Perl Programmer located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Active member of Copenhagen Perl Mongers.
Author of:
- Business::DK::CPR
- Business::DK::CVR
- Business::DK::PO
- Business::OnlinePayment::CashCow
- Date::Holidays
- Date::Holidays::Abstract
- Date::Holidays::Super
- Date::Pregnancy
- Games::Bingo
- Games::Bingo::Bot
- Games::Bingo::Print
- Module::Info::File
- Module::Template::Setup
- Test::Timer
and maintainer of:
- Tie::Tools
- XML::Conf
- Workflow
Wednesday May 07, 2003
03:51 AM
Is Perl ugly and unstructured?
One of my colleagues does not want to touch Perl. He finds it ugly and weird. A few weeks back I got an assignment of delivering a script to the system he is maintaining. I wrote it and now I have to integrate it with the existing Perl modules and scripts used by his group/system.
Now I understand...
The modules are messy and unstructured, I need to call methods in one of the modules and it needs another module meaning that the PERL5LIB environment variable is getting longer and longer the more I dig into the structure.
I am thinking about asking my boss for the assignment of refactoring (rewriting) all of the existing modules used by this system.
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Egads! (Score:3, Funny)
I wanted to shred it upon the instant, whip out CGI.pm and HTML::Template and my Vorpal Keyboard and HAVE AT THEE!! {hack, slash}
I mean really. REALLY. If someone was willing to pay me to do it I'd drop everything and just go DO it. I might just do it anyway and hold it for ransom
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Dedication makes the difference (Score:1)
Hm. Thinking about it, since Laziness and Impatience are two of the great virtues, maybe this pulls the balance towards ugly and unstructured 'write-only' code (get the job done, and get on). On the other hand, Hubris defi