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Re: parsing markup with Perl

• From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>
• To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:36:38 +0000

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Moreover, sometimes writing "ugly"/complicated/inelegant code with some
>> so-called anti-patterns can go a long way in making sure your code is kept
>> simple (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle ). This is instead of
>> using an abstraction that tries to produce the most elegant code any time, and
>> ends up being hard to learn, use and read (there's some previous discussion on
>> it in this thread of Sayeret Lambda (an Israeli group of programming languages'
>> enthusiasts)
>>
>
> People who code in Python but can't grok List Comprehensions use the
> exact same argument.
>

Tell a lie. The same argument with an  efficiency rider tacked on the end.

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