Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl editor idea

[Wassercrats]

So rewrite the puppy. Try not to look at the old code when you do, and certainly avoid cut and pasting from it as much as possible.

YIKES!!! It's a bit more than a puppy! Have you seen the (disabled) interface? The script does this in about 2500 lines (I hate that comments get included in these counts). It works beautifully and I can handle the maintenance. It's just that I had some ideas that would make things a bit easier. Out of curiosity, I would like to see the expression on a maintenance programmer's face after he saw the code, but I'm the maintainer now, and it seems ok to me.

[demerphq]

YIKES!!! It's a bit more than a puppy!

Actually 2500 lines including comments is not particularly huge. And I bet after a rewrite it drops by about half.

It's just that I had some ideas that would make things a bit easier.

So do a rewrite. Refactor. Clean. Reengineer. Improve. You have the skills. You have the technology. Hopfully you have the time?

Out of curiosity, I would like to see the expression on a maintenance programmer's face after he saw the code, but I'm the maintainer now, and it seems ok to me.

Actually given what you say I bet you wouldnt like to see the expression on his face. Especially as the thing you see right after almost certainly would be the axe he is swinging at your head. ;-)

[Wassercrats]

It could probably be reduced by more than half if I use some of the modules that I reinvented and put within the script, but that would be artificial reduction. Time is a factor, though I don't have a deadline. I want to see if there is a market for the kind of site mapper I'm creating (I believe there is based on my research), and I want to see the evidence in $$$. If not, I have to add the other features I have in mind, and maybe move on to something else.

If I'm forced to just use the script as an example of my work, then I guess I'd have to show the code, and maybe I'd tidy it up.

[demerphq]

It could probably be reduced by more than half if I use some of the modules that I reinvented and put within the script, but that would be artificial reduction.

The more I read the more convinced I am about the correctness of my advice. And Module code doesnt count towards your line count as technically the code isnt maintained by you. If it did then really you should add in all the lines of code for Perl, and for the C libraries Perl uses etc.