Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments
NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Shades of the mid-90's 3 Comments More | Login | Reply /

 Full
 Abbreviated
 Hidden
More | Login | Reply
Loading... please wait.

  • His retort [yahoo.com] is interesting:

    "Newbies don't start programming perl by using packages and/or objects. I'm very sure that the use of packages and/or objects is 'overcoded' in case of a simple program like this.

    He's right that new Perl programmers won't jump right in to packages and objects -- though I don't know what makes him think they'll jump in to a 5000-line auction script.

    And if a 5000-line script isn't screaming for modularization, I don't know what is.

    • A long time ago I learned a term that's stuck with me to this day: position release. When I have an obstacle to personal growth or learning, it means that I have some sort of personal position on a matter that I need to let go of. Even to this day, I have to constantly remind myself that when someone points out another way of doing something, even if I disagree with it, I need to figure out why they're pointing it out so I can attempt to learn from them. It's a tough thing to do.

      • Another way of saying that is that no matter how crazy someone sounds to you, there is a reality in which what they said makes sense, and they're apparently living in that reality. It's a useful mind exercise to be able to reconstruct their reality: it's also useful for diffusing a rapidly escalating disagreement.

        Not that I ever apparently do that, of course. {grin}

        --
        • Randal L. Schwartz
        • Stonehenge
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.