This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. [LWN.net]

This has nothing to do with OpenBSD.

Posted May 5, 2007 18:22 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet) by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

My only issue with write-only-code was that for a long time it was the preferred religion of many perl coders. Maybe it was job-security fears or the macho-ness that none of the other perl coders could figure out your hairy construct you came up with. This is not a language issue though.. it is a culture/religion issue and those are the ones that get people the most rankled... got to know who your buddies are and who you need to send the inquisition after...

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Just fun

Posted May 5, 2007 18:45 UTC (Sat) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

I often try to solve some thing with as little lines of code or even characters as possible in Perl - and then throw this code away and replace it with a longer, maintainable version. It's just fun and nice practice, not unlike something mathematicians do.

To introduce such constructs into production code is irresponsible of course.