On Friday 16 June 2006 07:52, Tom Horsley wrote: > Perl really is a write-only language, and you just can't do > production work write-only - someone has to maintain production > code, and the language is so fantastically huge, no two programmers > even appear to be writing in the same language. > > I'm not sure what feature you could deliver to address this > problem, but there's your first challenge :-). That's rule zero [*]. Don't feel badly. A lot of companies fail to meet this rule. -- c * Don't hire crack-addled, barely literate monkeys who spend more time screeching and flinging stuff at each other than working together to create and maintain production code.