[SLL] [OT] ingenious use of a one-liner perl script

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:03:47PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 April 2007 15:38:11 Glenn Stone wrote:
>> There's a reason Perl is called the Swiss Army Knife of the Internet...
>
>And a reason those of us that like maintainable software abhore perl scripts 
>(:  Because if I wrote something like that, which would have to be maintained 
>by somebody else, I probably would be fired.

I think Bill Campbell called it a "write-only" language... much like the APL
of yore... 

-- Glenn
Quadruple-bucky cokebottle.
(That's hyper-super-meta-alt, shift-1, on the Space Cadet keyboard.)