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• Running tests (Score:1)

  by jplindstrom (594)

  This one, while it doesn't strike me as a very perlish thing to do, we already have conventions and libraries in place to do this in a different way, seems like a very natural way to organize unit tests:

  modules, when executed from the command line, should
  either run tests or do nothing.

  But, yes, 90% of the specifics and 100% of the concepts of that had nothing to do with Python.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    All well-behaved Perl modules do nothing if you run them directly, so they already “run tests or do nothing”… :-)
• Proof of Syntax and Readability (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  Syntax doesn't give you readable code for free.

  Hm. Let's test this out.

  • Scheme has uniform syntax.
  • Uniform syntax is trivial to learn, and easy to read.
  • Therefore, if uniform syntax leads to readable code, then Scheme expressions should all be very readable and easy to understand

  Proof:

  ((call/cc call/cc) (call/cc call/cc))

  Hm. I guess uniform syntax doesn't necessarily lead to readable code. :-)
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    It's computers, so the analogy should involve cars, but "Just because I can diagram a sentence doesn't mean I can read Finnegan's Wake."