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

[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.

[Wassercrats]

By "reinvented" I mean I didn't even look at the code for the existing modules, and in most cases, I didn't know the modules existed. Now that I think of it, I would have less of an example of my work if I threw out my reinventions and used other peoples' modules, though turning my reinventions into self contained scripts and using other peoples' modules in my site mapper is an option.