Ive been using PERL for 7 years plus, Ive been told on more than one occasion that I write ugly code - Can anyone point me towards any docs that emphasize asthetically pleasing and efficient code? I always seem to be able to use PERL to come up with solutions, I just want to be proud of my code... Recently Ive had to explain some code to a fellow co-worker, and was rather embarrassed by my lack of style.
Thanks
UPDATE - thanks all of these suggestions have been extremely useful 2006-09-14 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines ( keep:0 edit:12reap:0 )
Original title: 'aesthetics'
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