Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : Jonathan Bartlett
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 03:54 pm

> okay, so i can't follow perl code - some times it just looks like so
> much:
> hjgf$~@//\4-abc/\%$@
> in fact that snippet might be really useful to someone!

It's probably not Perl code you even mind -- It's probably regular 
expression code, which is _nicer_ to read in Perl than in other 
languages.  For example, the same regular expression in PHP is usually 
twice as hard to read because of all of the backslash-escaping you have 
to do.

Jon
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