Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Posted Oct 29, 2005 15:37 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Reading Comprehension by ncm
Parent article: Technologies to Watch: A Look at Four That May Challenge Java's Development Dominance (O'ReillyNet)

I suppose I ought to inject a bit of fact into this discussion.

I used to work in a Perl shop[1], and we did code reviews regularly -
I conducted them usually twice a week. We rarely had a problem
with the code: all code had warnings and tainting and "use strict"
turned on. People were discouraged from deliberately writing
obfuscated code - but that's just standard practice in any
organisation worth anything. Everyone there was to some degree
able or expert in Perl.

Reading and reviewing other peoples' Perl was not a problem I
can recall having. Figuring out logical bugs in the code was
the hard issue, and that'd be just the same in any language.

Rich.

[1] http://www.schoolmaster.net/ - many tens-to-hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl code.

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