The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Functional Notations

[Joachim Durchholz]

Twisted schrieb:
> On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <j... at durchholz.org> wrote:
>> It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
> 
> Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
> sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO).
> 
> Still, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (And no, a
> fuzzy picture of something that might be a giant serpent-like thing in
> the loch, or equivalent, does not constitute "extraordinary
> evidence".)

There's enough Perl code around. Including some that's been reported as 
maintainable and well-maintained.
I haven't looked too deeply into it, but what I have seen from e.g. 
Webmin looked quite clear and straightforward to me. (Real Programmers 
can write Fortran code in any language - and they can write Pascal code 
in any language...)

Perl code *can* resemble line noise. I don't like the language. I think 
Larry and the Perl community have been getting some priorities very 
wrong over time (and other things very right as well: take a look at the 
regex redesign for Perl 6, for example - it's all shades of grey, not 
black-and-white).

Regards,
Jo