At 10:45 AM 11/20/2001 -0500, Ted Ashton wrote:
><snip examples of poor code vs. good code>
>
>Other than disagreeing with you about making the curlies line up (which is a
>style issue, as you said),

Yes well, you would be hard pressed to change my mind on this one, and as
I've found those that prefer the "incorrect style" :) can't have their mind
changed
either.

>I'm in complete agreement about making code
>readable.  However, that sort of thing does not differentiate Perl from other
>languages.  If that was what the original poster meant, then I must conclude
>that he hasn't seen enough perl code.  There's quite a bit of
>carefully-written, readable perl out there.

The Learning Perl book from O'Reilly is a good example, do you have other
books that you would recommend?

Neil

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