Is this a dream or a nightmare? (Was Re: XML)

[Grant Griffin]

Michal Wallace wrote:
> 
...
> Reading super-concise perl is (similar to what dave said) like reading
> an academic paper. Each line has a lot of information crammed into it.
> 
> The more ideas you cram into a line, the harder the code is to read.
> That's why I like the idea of encapsulating the tricky stuff in a
> friendly method or object.. :)

That's a good (and familiar) idea.  So why don't academics apply that
principle to their papers?

they-seem-to-get-paid-per-"smoke-blow"-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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