tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20616594.post115117099168560439..comments2007-04-16T21:59:14.466ZDaniel F Moissethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11550350763702904614noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20616594.post-1151180770210123562006-06-24T20:26:00.000Z2006-06-24T20:26:00.000ZPerl has a number of mantras. One of them is "DWIM": the idea that Perl should "Do What I Mean" (presumably instead of "Do What I Say").<BR/><BR/>That mantra is used to justify all manner of automatic conversions and other shortcuts. DWIM seems to work well for Perl coders - making it possible to write working code faster - but it's at odds with the Eiffel Way.<BR/><BR/>A while back I was reading a web page which explained an algorithm with a few paragraphs of elegant pseudocode. After a while it dawned on me that the pseudocode was actually executable Python.<BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to further posts in this series.Roger Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143402976745398836noreply@blogger.com