[Techtalk] On Perl

[hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:55:04AM -0700 or thereabouts, gab wrote:
> > to be honest, this code is horrible hehe .. i hope it is just for
> > educational purposes to show possible uses of if, elsif, etc.
...
> <snip>
> > to be honest, this is poorly written code .. so if it's confusing, don't
> > think it's just you hehe.  if you need any more perl help, let me know :)
> 
> I'm curious as to what makes this poorly written.  I think that a better
> way to do something like this would be to use a hash instead of an
> array;  what else?
> 
> If this is going too OT for the Linuxchix list, please email me
> privately.  Thanks!

I dunno about private. It sounds like something for the programming
concepts stuff which Sonja was covering on courses list, and the
sort of thing that would be cool to explain. (I know Sonja is
travelling at the moment, but if anyone cares to chip in, I'd
love to know.)

Telsa