> Don't underestimate the utility of perl one-liners. You can't do them in Python, both because of the whitespace and because in practice Python is too verbose.
The value in doing something in a smaller amount of lines is lessened by the lessened maintainability of unreadable code.
Where do you think the effort in maintaining software goes? Typing? Or maintenance?
Where is this unreadable perl? I can't find it. I have no problem reading perl by all kinds of people.
C, on the other hand, is frequently indecipherable because so many lines are spent doing something trivial that it's easy to lose the forest for the trees.
Generally ~kingkongrevenge. Many ways to do things means people who know enough to be competent at writing a language still have trouble reading code created by others due to unnecessary style differences.
The value in doing something in a smaller amount of lines is lessened by the lessened maintainability of unreadable code.
Where do you think the effort in maintaining software goes? Typing? Or maintenance?