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I've spent several years reading other people's Perl code
My conclusion is that most of it is horribly overwritten
It has too many features
There's too much code even for the features that are present
A lot of the Extreme Programming philosophy is contestible
But I think their primary maxim will live for a long time:
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.
In getstore, I failed to do this
I paid the cost for a feature with no benefit
Fortunately the cost was minimal in this case
my $file = shift;
unless (defined $file) {
And there was a happy ending:
After I wrote this class, I started using the $file argument!
But coming up soon:
A case where I really blew it
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