Readable Perl (was Re: Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?)

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at acm.org
Mon May 6 20:38:04 EDT 2002


In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> transmitted:
> But it is very impressive, for Perl code.  My compliments to
> the author.  Any perceived lack of readability is clearly the
> language's (and reader's) fault, not the author's.

The author used to be a Common Lisp hacker, who wrote rather a lot of
XEmacs, and was also heavily involved in the port of Mozilla to Unix,
many moons ago.  Older versions of Netscape Navigator/Communicator
support the "about:jwz" URL/URN, which might link you somewhere
interesting...
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