OT: on writing code

[Andre Garzia]

Mark,

can we say that is impossible to write elegant perl now since perl
always look bad...

On a side reference, I've been reading both "On lisp" and "Thinking
Forth", very nice books with very nice and elegant code.

Andre

On 1/28/08, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> Eric Raymond's talking about Perl vs Python here, but the point's valid (if
> you're reading the article online, just ignore the comments)
>
> "Also, I found I was spending more and more time wrestling with artifacts of
> the language rather than my application problems. And, most damning of all,
> the resulting code was ugly-this matters. Ugly programs are like ugly
> suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones,
> because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is
> intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A
> language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write
> good code."
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
>
> --
>  Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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