[sf-perl] alarmingly obscure perl on wikipedia

George Hartzell hartzell at alerce.com
Sun Nov 20 11:28:10 PST 2011


Kevin Goess writes:
 > On the topic of trying to promote readable, modern Perl, I just happened to
 > come across this in the wikipedia article on "Function Objects":
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object#In_Perl. It's a terrible,
 > terrible ambassador for Perl, and I think actually misses the point of the
 > article. If you compare the Perl code with even the Javascript code it's
 > downright embarrassing.
 > 
 > I'm going to mirror the Javascript example and rewriting the Perl code as
 > follows, anybody have any comments on this?
 > 

Seems like a great idea.

g.


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