10 tips for writing perl one-liners

Re:10 tips for writing perl one-liners by jrockway on Thursday May 27, 2010 @12:10PM (#1384075)

Perl is dead. One-liners are unmaintainable. Everyone should write their one-off command invocations with test driven development, separation of interface and implementation, javadoc, and aspect-oriented programming.

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Re:10 tips for writing perl one-liners by pellicle on Thursday May 27, 2010 @12:57PM (#1384231)

I don't think HN's sarcasm tags are rendering correctly today.

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Re:10 tips for writing perl one-liners by gamache on Thursday May 27, 2010 @01:01PM (#1384240)

I think we could really use a Ruby DSL for naysaying.

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Re:10 tips for writing perl one-liners by zavulon on Thursday May 27, 2010 @05:50PM (#1385031)

I guess it's "in style" now to make fun of "Perl is unmaintainable" statements. Sure, it's cool and a lot of fun, until you're the one that has to maintain it and make changes to it.

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Re:10 tips for writing perl one-liners by jrockway on Thursday May 27, 2010 @06:01PM (#1385059)

I maintain a lot of Perl. It's a joy.

Now this legacy C++ and Java... hoo boy...

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