| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2000 at 11:00:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Neil's Perl Jealousy ;) (Was: Re: Issue 12) |
Andy Wanless said,
> On 5 Sep 2000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> $/\*[&^]&"%£^&$&**$"£%!%%"%^*(
> A quick perl -e on that reveals...
> That's not Perl, that's just taking the piss ;)
It did staret off sort of valid, but I got bored and just basjed the top
row of the keyboard. To normal people, the result is indistinguishable
from Perl :)
> Perl is perfectly readable,
Until you get to the regexp stuff :(
> it's just the error messages that aren't
> particularly helpful at times ;)
Error messages aren1t supposed ot be. If they were, all sorts of people
would be able to understand programming and coders wouldn't be able to
charge ridiculous fees.
Neil
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