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Perl.com: Program Repair Shop and Red Flags

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2000

[ Thanks to Ben
Tilly
for this link. ]

I’ve taken a real program written by a genuine novice and
shown how to clean it up and make it better.
I also show how
to recognize some “red flags” that are early warning signs that you
might be doing some of the same things wrong in your own
programs.”

“Someone recently asked me to take a look at his
report-generating program because he wasn’t able to get the final
report sorted the way he wanted.”

“The program turned out to require only a minor change to get
the report in order, but it also turned out to be a trove of common
mistakes–which is wonderful, because I can use one program to show
how to identify and fix all the common mistakes at once!”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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