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| 2 From: johnpc@xs4all.nl (Jan-Pieter Cornet) | |
| 3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,alt.lang.intercal,alt.test | |
| 4 Subject: Re: Readable Perl (was: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C) | |
| 5 Date: 27 Feb 1996 02:44:19 GMT | |
| 6 Organization: XS4ALL Internet | |
| 7 Message-ID: <4gtr64$s7h@news.xs4all.nl> | |
| 8 Summary: hit "n" now! quick! | |
| 9 | |
| 10 In article <4ge7bk$4vq@news.ox.ac.uk>, | |
| 11 David Hopwood <lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk> wrote: | |
| 12 >In article <4gb3kp$lu7@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, | |
| 13 >Matthew B. Kennel <kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov> wrote: | |
| 14 >>Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) wrote: | |
| 15 >>: >>>>> "John" == John Viega <jtv2j@mamba.cs.virginia.edu> writes: | |
| 16 >> | |
| 17 >>: John> People bitch about the readability of Perl non-stop. In fact, I have | |
| 18 >>: John> heard the joke, "Perl, the only language you can uuencode, and not | |
| 19 >>: John> notice" twice this week around the department. | |
| 20 >> | |
| 21 >>: OK, now which do you find most readable... | |
| 22 > | |
| 23 >This (Haskell): | |
| 24 > | |
| 25 >cancount n = "I can count to "++(show n)++"\n" | |
| 26 >concat (map cancount [1..10]) | |
| 27 | |
| 28 No, you got it all totally wrong. I think this is the best readable | |
| 29 (in Tri-INTERCAL): | |
| 30 | |
| 31 [Program moved to .3i file.] | |
| 32 | |
| 33 Now, I think the advantages of this are pretty clear. First, this is | |
| 34 clearly a write-only language. There are only few people insane enough | |
| 35 to actually understand the above drivel, and they wouldn't bother | |
| 36 touching your petty code, as they are too busy filling bathtubs with | |
| 37 brightly colored machine tools. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 Anyone else will simply be too scared to touch this code. So you can be | |
| 40 pretty sure nobody changes it behind your back. | |
| 41 | |
| 42 In fact, you can be pretty sure you won't change it either after you | |
| 43 wrote it, because you will probably have forgotten how the program | |
| 44 works 5 minutes after you wrote it. So any luser nagging for extra | |
| 45 features afterwards, is SOL. | |
| 46 | |
| 47 The other major advantage is... the above code took me about 3 hours | |
| 48 to write. Compare this to the 10 to 30 seconds it takes to write a | |
| 49 similar program in perl, BASIC, Haskell or what have you. But... that | |
| 50 means that when you programmed it in that other language, you'd have to | |
| 51 spend 2 hours 59 minutes and somewhere between 30 and 50 seconds | |
| 52 answering the phone talking to clueless lusers, changing backup tapes, | |
| 53 or doing other boring stuff. While you could have been programming | |
| 54 Intercal instead! Just think about that! | |
| 55 | |
| 56 And last, but certainly not least, is: the above code is likely to | |
| 57 impress your boss. Bosses are wont to be impressed by incomprehensible | |
| 58 things. They won't be impressed by a three line perl program that anyone | |
| 59 not wearing a diaper can understand. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 So that pretty much proves it. | |
| 62 | |
| 63 PS: this article contains some strange usage of the words "best readable" | |
| 64 that you probably weren't previously aware of :) | |
| 65 | |
| 66 -- | |
| 67 Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc@xs4all.net> | |
| 68 Actual quote: "Linux was made by foreign terrorists to steal money from true | |
| 69 AMERICAN companies like Microsoft who invented computing as we | |
| 70 know it, and are being punished for their success..." | |
| 71 Linux -- "It's computing, Jim, but not as we know it" |