Writing Maintainable Perl
Learn how to write maintainable code in Perl.
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Maintainability
Maintainability is the nebulous measurement of how easy it is to understand and modify a program. Write some code. Come back to it in six months (or six days). How long does it take you to find and fix a bug or add a feature? That’s maintainability.
Maintainability doesn’t measure whether we have to look up the syntax for a built-in or a library function. It doesn’t measure how someone who has never programmed before will or won’t read our code. Assume we’re talking to a competent programmer who understands the problem we’re trying to ...