Is this not more the fault of Regular Expression's rather than Perl as a
language itself for obfuscating code?  Perl is actually an elegant and
simple language.  Regular Expressions have always been ugly, in any
language, albiet powerful.

Just my opinion.
Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Michael Rigby-Jones
Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:11 pm
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE:] microGUI, are there others?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Blick [mailto:bobblick@COVAD.NET]
> Sent: 07 October 2003 19:06
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE:] microGUI, are there others?
>
> Really, so many good things can be done quickly and easily in
> Perl, and it
> is way more popular than Python.

What I have found is that Perl is *excellent* for creating the most
obfuscated, difficult to read code that I have ever seen.  Most programms
look like someone has spilled a bucket of punctuation marks accross a
page...

Mike




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