From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T07:04:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Small Methods - a ramble

David Alan Black wrote:


> Clarity is such a vexed thing.  I believe people who say that they
> find Perl code clear.  (I used to find it reasonably clear -- I'm a
> little out of the loop right now :-) I also believe people who say
> they find it opaque, and I believe those people when they say they
> find code in some other language clear.  (Which is to say, if a
> non-programmer said Perl was opaque, that wouldn't "count" in the same
> way.)  Clarity is annoyingly relative; it seems that what you find
> clear is what you've learned to find clear, and/or perhaps are
> cognitively predisposed to find clear.


exactly. That's why,

If there's a Perl crack, a Ruby wizard, and a programming newbie, then 
I'd value the newbies judgement about the clarity of each language the 
highest.

Tobi


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