Author: Jack Knight Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] On-line Banking (Not entirely O.T.)
On 15/07/10 14:08, Vic wrote: >
>>> perl -e 'print reverse<>'<input.csv>output.csv
>>>
>> Yes, but because Python is more legible I stand a better chance of
>> understanding what it does when I come to re-read it. Not like that
>> gibberish.
>>
> That's just prejudice.
>
> Having spent some time this week trying to debug some Python, I have come
> to the conclusion that it is just like any language - intelligible to
> those that understand it, and impenetrable to those that don't. But Perl's
> debugging tools do seem significantly more usable, from what I've found so
> far.
>
> Describing that piece of perl above as "gibberish" is just laziness; its
> meaning is trivially understood.
>
