[Bioperl-l] advice

[Chris Fields]

Guess Dr. Conway became a Perl convert.  The reviews of the book state that
the 'best practices' really come from his experience as a Perl programmer
over the last couple of decades, so maybe he learned something since 1990.

Chris

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