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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature"
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> The reputation comes from perl scripts that are hacked together to do a
> single job.  Often this involves a horrendous regular expression or two.
>  The script makes sense at the time, with trial-and-error debugging of
> the regular expressions and the developer's notes on a scrap of paper.
> The problem comes when this throw-away script is re-used as part of a
> bigger program or a permanent feature in a system.
>
> More serious perl code and larger programs will be as well-designed or
> badly-designed as for any other language.

Just as you can write Fortran in any language, you can write APL in any
language.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"