OT: Skilled migration

John Macdonald john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 3 23:55:50 UTC 2005


On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> > There's More Than One Way To Do It - the official Perl motto.
> > 
> > The unofficial motto is; "Yeah, it looks like line noise, but this
> > one-liner can't be written in less than 200 lines of C."
> 
> However, the unofficial corollary is:  "Mind you, the 200 lines of C would
> probably be easier to understand and maintain!" 

As would the 10 line perl version that was written
in a clear form instead of line noise.

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