[124575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Books for the NOC guys...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Apr 2 16:11:09 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20100402175344.GC1510190@hiwaay.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:10:29 -0400
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:53 44PM, Chris Adams 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.
>=20
> Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. At least I can
> reformat the perl! :-)
> --=20
Oh, I don't know about that -- you an often reformat APL, too. Just =
because something can be written in one line doesn't mean it should be!
And bad APL -- well, that's produced either by people who are trying to =
be too clever, or who haven't grokked APL's array-as-a-whole philosophy, =
and try to use its (very poor) looping or conditional control flow =
primitives. =20
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
