Perl like practically all other languages is maintainable.
The problem is ignorant forum trolls who have over the years brainwashed weak minded people that Perl some how needs to be unreadable and that bad code unobfuscated, undocumented, and uncommented code is impossible to write in other languages.
This entire thread boils down to a bloody popularity contest based ignorance.
If you have dificult to read Perl code it means you have a crappy and/or lazy programmer.
Perl is very capable of being clear. Undocumented/uncommented and obfuscated can be written in any language, including Python, and it is ignorant to assume that it is some how magically a Perl only trait.
If you are getting undocumented/uncommented and obfuscated in Perl from your developers it means you really need to have a talk with them. There is no reason for not using POD.
You are making the common ignorant statement made by many people and are assuming that Perl is all regex.
I've actually have written many Perl programs that make no use of regex.
If you are ever writing stuff you don't understand later, what it means is your skills as a programmer as severely in question. That is what comments are for. In fact Perl makes documentation a breeze with POD.
Actually if you can't come back and read your Perl code in a week nor have done documentation on it, it means you really need to take some time to sit down and seriously review your coding style. If you can't do it in Perl, it is unlikely your Python code is any better.
Look into POD and learn how to use it... also comment every other bloody line pretty much regardless what it is. The first is useful for Perl only and the second applies to all languages.
Having required white space does not make a language readable in the least. It is a sad fact that most Python programmers can't admit to them selves. Code is under no circumstance ever self documenting nor does good formatting happen make it easy to ready.
If you have bad formatting in Perl or any other language, it means you have a bad and lazy programmer.
I personally find Perl way easier to read and manage. I love brackets.
On a side note, the example you posted why Perl is unreadable does nothing other than prove you to be ignorantly biased. With it you are saying all Perl code looks like that and is unreadable as that. Creating that sort of level of bad and obfuscated code is something that can be done in any language. The exact method one goes about it will very but bad and obfuscated code is bad and obfuscated regardless of the language.
Why do I like it over python?
1: I've run into far fewer dependency issues over the years with it when compared to Python. 2: A wide variety of modules already available for it. 3: Easy to read. 4: Easy to write modular stuff with it. 5: Easy to document.
most likely not well... Eclipse is memory hungry and none of the flash is probally devoted to swap... you may not be able to at all if you have the 256M version
Yo jackass, if you don't like something your state or country is doing, it is wrong to leave. It is then your job to stick around and fight it and not be such a fucking whiny bitch.
It has the ability to strip it's self across more than one disk to make it pleasant for when migrating live systems to a new set of storage devices./me also thinks Linux devs would do good to look into porting GEOM from FreeBSD to Linux.
There is also a NDIS wrapper in 5.x. This allows NDIS drivers from windows to be used.
Here are the links to the man pages.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&apro pos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current&format =html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndiscvt&s ektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current
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Perl like practically all other languages is maintainable.
The problem is ignorant forum trolls who have over the years brainwashed weak minded people that Perl some how needs to be unreadable and that bad code unobfuscated, undocumented, and uncommented code is impossible to write in other languages.
This entire thread boils down to a bloody popularity contest based ignorance.
If you have dificult to read Perl code it means you have a crappy and/or lazy programmer.
Perl is very capable of being clear. Undocumented/uncommented and obfuscated can be written in any language, including Python, and it is ignorant to assume that it is some how magically a Perl only trait.
If you are getting undocumented/uncommented and obfuscated in Perl from your developers it means you really need to have a talk with them. There is no reason for not using POD.
You are making the common ignorant statement made by many people and are assuming that Perl is all regex.
I've actually have written many Perl programs that make no use of regex.
If you are ever writing stuff you don't understand later, what it means is your skills as a programmer as severely in question. That is what comments are for. In fact Perl makes documentation a breeze with POD.
Actually if you can't come back and read your Perl code in a week nor have done documentation on it, it means you really need to take some time to sit down and seriously review your coding style. If you can't do it in Perl, it is unlikely your Python code is any better.
Look into POD and learn how to use it... also comment every other bloody line pretty much regardless what it is. The first is useful for Perl only and the second applies to all languages.
Having required white space does not make a language readable in the least. It is a sad fact that most Python programmers can't admit to them selves. Code is under no circumstance ever self documenting nor does good formatting happen make it easy to ready.
If you have bad formatting in Perl or any other language, it means you have a bad and lazy programmer.
I personally find Perl way easier to read and manage. I love brackets.
On a side note, the example you posted why Perl is unreadable does nothing other than prove you to be ignorantly biased. With it you are saying all Perl code looks like that and is unreadable as that. Creating that sort of level of bad and obfuscated code is something that can be done in any language. The exact method one goes about it will very but bad and obfuscated code is bad and obfuscated regardless of the language.
Why do I like it over python?
1: I've run into far fewer dependency issues over the years with it when compared to Python.
2: A wide variety of modules already available for it.
3: Easy to read.
4: Easy to write modular stuff with it.
5: Easy to document.
Nah, the log files it produces are quite useful. It would just mean you don't know what you are looking for or etc.
most likely not well... Eclipse is memory hungry and none of the flash is probally devoted to swap... you may not be able to at all if you have the 256M version
Yo jackass, if you don't like something your state or country is doing, it is wrong to leave. It is then your job to stick around and fight it and not be such a fucking whiny bitch.
It has the ability to strip it's self across more than one disk to make it pleasant for when migrating live systems to a new set of storage devices. /me also thinks Linux devs would do good to look into porting GEOM from FreeBSD to Linux.
It has nothing to do with communist ideas or even being free. Open source easily fits in with capitalism as well or any other economics system.
Open Source just means that you can easily view the source code and generally possibly to modify it.
If you want to talk about ideas, you should talk about different groups and the like, but not generalize like that.
There is also a NDIS wrapper in 5.x. This allows NDIS drivers from windows to be used. Here are the links to the man pages. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndis&apro pos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current&format =html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ndiscvt&s ektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current