to code or not to code?

[Jonathan Furrer]

Hmmmm, thats a documentation thing. If you don't document C++ for example
you can find yourself in just as much hurt and pain. I spent an entire
nite waisted on going back through some code a group mate wrote and trying
to figure out what the hell he was doing. I also commented his code for
him afterward, and he seems to get the point now. But the truth here is
that regarding any language, OOP, Procedural, etc. If you fail to comment,
and follow style rules, you have a mess to understand the next day.

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Jonathan Furrer
jonny@jofu.com
http://www.jofu.com/

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jim wrote:

> I believe you Mike - without a foundation in OOP, Perl IS easier to learn
> and use.  But I have heard a lot of horror stories about people either
> trying to pick up someone else's Perl script and rewriting it (what a
> total waste of time) or going back to a script they wrote a while back and
> not understanding either what they wanted to do, why they did it the way
> they did, or even how the script works.  My best scenario for Perl - the
> simpler the task, the simpler the script, the better off you are using
> Perl.  Imho, Perl, just like every other tool, has its place.  
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote: 
> > My 2 cents: > I AM a newbie (just askDavid), and I think Perl is still the way 
> > to go. I have picked up bookson Python (O'Reilly), and still found 
> > myself turning to Perl because Ifound it easier to understand. 
> > 
> > The selection of modules at CPAN is enormous (sp?), and there is a good
> > chance you will find one for the task you need to do (er um, I'm still
> > havin' a tough time finding something for SQL7). In fact, I had a need to
> > be able to generate graphs from MySQL queries, and  whatta ya know, CPAN
> > had the modules I needed (although I had a dickens of a time getting
> > GDGraph to go).
> > 
> > My advice, play with them all. Find the one that makes most sense to YOU.
> > Then take the ball and run :-)
> > 
> > Mike
> > mgcon@getnet.com
> > http://www.getnet.com/~mgcon
> > Phoenix, AZ
> > USA
> > 
> > 
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