perl

[infohigh]

ugh, I'm trying to fix some bad old perl scripts. I wrote them, but they make no sense to me. Some wonderful "features":

• a line of code is commented with the ominous: # MISERABLE HACK
• the variable $crazytime. I don't know what it does :(
• some syntax in this code breaks vim's syntax highlighting. sigh...

This should be a fun night

Comments

[anonymous]

why do ppl write write-only perl? :P:)

ooo sonic does look cool/fun :)

Gilad

[infohigh]

write-only perl was cheap and fast. it's teh drugz.

[lambda_calculus]

I had to learn Perl for work. I'm no longer a computar languages snob, I have been tainted :(

[lambda_calculus]

In fact how can you know what is pure without tasting a bit of impure? ;)

Gilad

[secondarylab]

After years of programming in Perl, I recently taught my co-workers how to debug scripts using the -d flag. I'm such a fan of debuggers, though they still insist that the print statements are the way to go.