[124569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Books for the NOC guys...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Irvine)
Fri Apr 2 14:03:47 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100402175344.GC1510190@hiwaay.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:02:53 -0700
From: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@gmail.com>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> said:
>> All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
>
> Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. =A0At least I can
> reformat the perl! :-)
In my experience bad perl usually consists of using system() a lot to
run shell commands and read the input. Creative well-written perl, now
there's something unreadable and unmaintainable! :-)
-B
