[ale] Organizing data

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:56, Jason Etheridge wrote:

> > Perl is no more or less readable or maintainable then any other language 
> > when properly written (that includes commented).
> 
> I can agree with that.  But it's so easy to just "whip stuff up" in Perl 
> that it's a problem for me. :D  One minute I think I'm putting up a 
> prototype that I can rebuild later, and then next thing I know I'm 
> supporting it.
> 

That is why on this code I'm slowing down and trying to figure out ways
to do it with good code.  My plan is to throw it away and replace it
with some Java code.  We all know how hacking stuff out goes.  We hack
it out and plan to revisit it later and maybe redo.  Later becomes
never.