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Or you could really go easy on yourself and not use Perl. ;-)
Please substantiate that claim by citing similar code exhibiting better clarity.
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BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
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Re: BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
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Or you could really go easy on yourself and not use Perl. ;-)
Please substantiate that claim by citing similar code exhibiting better clarity.
It wasn't a claim, as the winking smiley ought to have suggested to you.
It was a joke, and one based on nearly 27 years of writing Perl at that.
Re: BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
#33First thing I notice: the license is horrible. Even GNU recommends liberal licenses for snippets with less than 300 lines (and allows for commercial use anyway!): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html " What if the work is not very long? (#WhatIfWorkIsShort) If a whole software package contains very little code—less than 300 lines is the benchmark we use—you may as well use a lax permissive license for it, rather…
> Considering that the BBC was mainly finances by quasi-public money it's a shame that it was opted for a license with an unnecessary special case (NC). Unfortunatly this is why it has to be licensed in that way. Having the BBC release code for free to commercial use is often deemed to be a "market distortion", and thus not allowed to happen, as such the lawyers will often err on the side of caution. Also remember th…
Yeah, sadly. But good you say it explicitly and it a fair spin(?) -- I just wanted to point out the IMO damage that license does, not blame the authors/BBC.
In Germany it's the same with the "Mediathek" nonsense. Shows paid with public money can only shown for a ridiculously short time -- no freely accessible archive.
Re: BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (1999)
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The ITV network still isn’t a single company! STV (Scotland) is not owned by ITV plc.
Fair enough, but outside Scotland it really feels like ITV is just a channel rather than the original plan of federation of channels...
Oh for sure. I blame David Cameron (ha ha only serious, he was senior at Carlton which merged with Granada to form modern ITV plc)