Moving files

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:49:32 EST
Derek Martin said:

>Of course it does.  But experienced programmers with no knowledge of
>Perl are, I suspect, a lot more likely to guess what they do than to
>guess what that obscure map bit does.

I don't believe it was obscure at all.  In fact, that was some of the 
most straight forward map/grep out there compared to some I've seen.

Additionally, any experienced programmer should also be well used to 
having to look something up in the docs when they come across 
something they don't know at first site.  Taking my map/grep bits and 
looking up map/grep in the perl man pages should give the person a 
very clear and concise understanding of how these functions exist
(how else do think *I* learned them!  I saw them, said, hey, what's 
map() do, perldoc perlfun <search for map>, and said, "Hey, now 
that's cool!)

>Yes, but for those NOT familiar with Perl syntax, they are
>unnecessarily impossible to decipher.

No, they are not.  You just like to bitch about perl allegedly being 
unnecessarily impossible to decipher.

>> I find it interesting that you found the others cryptic.  The seem 
>> quite straitforward to me.

>That's because you know Perl.  =8^)

At one time I didn't, I got to know perl by looking at far more 
cryptic examples than have ever passed by on this list, and RTFM'ing.

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