[PLUG] Scalable and esthetic Perl

[Paul Mullen]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:44:19PM -0700, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> >But I need to add point 3 for balance:
> >
> >    3) It's also practical and reasonable to produce nice looking Perl
> >    code that is maintainable and scalable
> 
> You know, I think you are probably right as long as it is someone like 
> you and me writing the code (I think my Perl has always been very 
> clean). Its just that I have seen way too much code from others that 
> wasn't maintainable and probably wasn't scalable.

It always seemed to me [1] that programming in Perl is a bit like playing
the guitar: it's an instrument that requires little effort to become
passably mediocre at, but it's damned tough to master. Then again, pretty
much any programming language will be tough to master, and once you master
one, you usually can move on to the others with significantly less effort.

[1] NB: This is my opinion, and is not meant to be construed as fact. :-)


Paul