[jimfuller]

its easy to look at code out of context ... was the coder under duress, was he being asked to do a million things at the same time. Was he being paid enough to care ... i'm not making apologies, I think one of the worst things that can happen to a coder is you lower your own personal quality bar; but its easy to do if in the wrong set of context. I always recommend quitting before getting to that point.

Addressing some of the other comments; Perl and the Perl community itself is so far removed from macho ... its still one of the kindest, most intelligent and beneficial public communities online .... if someone feels emasculated by just reading someone's code; don't mistake that for the original coder's intent was to emasculate.

Perl is the programming language that I would want with me if the world was coming to an end (asteroids of course) and somehow I could help save it with getting the damn lasers to work to blow up the asteroids ... if it takes a 150 char regex then so be it.