Jaap Spies wrote:
> Vadim wrote:
>
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>> untar distribution and look into the "doc" directory.
>> many files within doc-x.xx/perl/ directory has comments like
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>> 1; # stupid perl...
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> Not that many: exactly once in the file isilo.perl, but
> indeed there is more:
I browsed source tree to understand how SAGE integrates things together,
and that place was among first ones which I read, so my impression of
the entire system became worse.
That's why I mentioned that just removing those will greatly improve
impression.
>
>>> [jaap at paix perl]$ grep Perl *
>>> distutils.perl:1; # Bad Perl.
>>> ltxmarkup.perl:1; # Must end with
>>> this, because Perl is bogus.
>>> SynopsisTable.pm: # my first Perl "object".
>>> SynopsisTable.pm:1; # This must be the last line -- Perl is bogus!
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>
> All related to the 'feature' ending the file with "1;".
Strictly speaking this author's remark in PM file is not fully correct,
but regarding same comment in ltxmarkup.perl this is simply wrong.
To me, such a comment indicates that author is not proficient enough
with Perl and writes "naive" C-like code in Perl, thus giving even
stronger point that Perl is bad.
Sometimes badly written code isn't indication that the tool itself is bad.
(texi2html, living in MAXIMA distribution, is written in a very bad style)
Vadim.