Re: Books for the NOC guys...

[Bryan Irvine <sparctacus () gmail com>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> said:
> > All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
>
> Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL.  At least I can
> reformat the perl! :-)

In my experience bad perl usually consists of using system() a lot to
run shell commands and read the input. Creative well-written perl, now
there's something unreadable and unmaintainable!  :-)



-B