[oak perl] July Meeting - Call for more talks

Belden Lyman blyman at iii.com
Thu Jun 26 15:44:55 CDT 2003


robert-kuropkat at attbi.com wrote:
> Well, I have a good friend who refers to PERL as a "write-only" language 
> because no one is really expected to read the code once it is written.  I have 
> also heard PERL often times referred to as "line noise" (regular expressions 
> being the worst contributer to this).
> 
> My particular talk will be on Literate Programming.  This concept was pioneered 
> by Donald Knuth in the early 80's.  I'm not an expert on this subject, just a 
> fan.
> 
> Robert Kuropkat
> 

Aha, thanks. Sounds quite interesting; will see you in July.

Belden




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