[Phoenix-pm] I don't buy it

[Anthony R. Nemmer]

Actually, the wheed whacker is a pretty cool invention.

Bill Nash wrote:
> Code is code is code. Like a katana in the hands of a master practitioner, 
> it can be a precision instrument wielded with grace and power. Hand that 
> sword to a gardener, and in the absence of a better tool or instruction, 
> it will become a weed whacker.
> 
> - billn
> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Scott Walters wrote:
> 
>> Matt Wright wrote formmail.pl which, though it was done in bad style, is
>> famous for having the highest density of vulnerabilities per line in any
>> program known to man.  It single handled made Perl the largest spam relay
>> right behend open Sendmail servers for a solid 7 years running.  Matt
>> Wright writes bad code.  My references to people who learned to code by
>> imitating him implied they had far more than style or preference wrong
>> with their code -- their code is bad.  As I said, usually people who
>> write &func aren't old Perl 4 programmers but are people who learned from
>> the wretched code floating around -- the most common of which is Matt's.
>>
>> -scott
>>
>> On  0, "Anthony R. Nemmer" <intertwingled at qwest.net> wrote:
>>> I don't buy the "Matt Wright" argument or whoever it is.  I think people
>>> can write perfectly good code in Perl 5 and use the & when calling
>>> subroutines.  You just need to be careful, per perlsub, in how you use
>>> &.  It's been my experience that prototypes are truly a hack, and that
>>> they are not used that often.  Again, this all may change with Perl 6,
>>> but when will Perl 6 be released?  It's probably years away.  Personally
>>> I think sigils are one of the things that makes Perl Perl, and that
>>> typeglobs are pretty cool.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
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