From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T02:30:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26043] Re: R:  Re: Hello World considered harmful


From: "Ciaran McCreesh" <keesh@users-dot-sf.net>
>
> Some people have strange ideas of what bad code is... I've seen the 
> following (or something along these lines) criticised for lack of clarity:
>
>   if (matched = (@mystr[@currentpos, -1][/<!DOCTYPE/]))
>     # do something with matched
>
> Is that bad code? I wouldn't say so, but some manager-types think 
> otherwise. Sure, if you've never used Ruby it could look strange, but if 
> you're not a Ruby programmer then you shouldn't be messing with Ruby code.
> 
> Heck, some people say that anything using regexes is bad, because it ain't 
> readable. I guess that's just COBOL syndrome...

Hooboy, yeah the COBOL "Hello World" was always my favorite:

http://www.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/cobol.html

...what could be more readable than that!?!?!????

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