[Bioperl-l] advice

[Torsten Seemann]

> Ha !  I *almost* added something about that.  I thought his vowel keys were
> broken for a bit, maybe from pounding the keyboard with extreme frustration!

The wide variety of pronunciation of English around the world can be 
mostly blamed on those damned vowels... so perhaps removing them helps 
one to reach a wider audience :-)

> As an aside, doesn't Damian Conway say something about the non-use of vowels
> in 'Perl Best Practices?'  I think it was in relation to variables,
> though...

Yeah, on page 46 he says NOT to remove vowels in variable names, use 
prefixes instead. Apprntly rmvng vwls mks t hrdr t ndrstnd stff.

(Actually, I studied at Monash University under Damian Conway, and 
recall his ridiculing of Perl, so I found it kind of ironic that he 
ended up changing the Perl landscape so significantly! He even wrote an 
internal publication "theStyle - a guide to C programming style" in 
about 1990 in which he violates some of his later Perl Best Practices :-)

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Dr Torsten Seemann               http://www.vicbioinformatics.com
Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Australia