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Interview With Brian Ingerson

Posted by michael on from the a-kind-of-zen dept.

comforteagle writes "Brian 'INGY' Ingerson is a well known and prolific Perl programmer. Far from being yet another perl hacker he is the author of several CPAN modules including award winning Inline, YAML, and most notably of late his wiki application Kwiki. I had the opportunity to interview INGY about his work on Kwiki, and his philosophy in programming in general."

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  1. IngyCommentStyle. by buttahead · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only bad thing I have to say about Ingerson's code is that he should use comments. He does mention that he wants kwiki to be easily changed by anyone. His lack of comments are a detriment to many people wishing to contribute. His idea of clean code means no comments. To some extent I can agree, but there are cases where code can't be made clearly understandable (especially when doing serious mojo), and a comment is needed.