| puddingpimp | $300K to develop and OS that is 100% binary compatible to windows XP and secure, and in 365 days??? |
| merlyn | "A planet where Apes are ruled by MAN???" puddingpimp - if you aren't just uttering a non-sequitor like me, you should provide context. |
| action | rhizo was hardly past elementary structs and control loops in C when he came by Perl, but even seeing a perlish for loop made him appreciate the Tao |
| rhizo | was hardly past elementary structs and control loops in C when he came by Perl, but even seeing a perlish for loop made him appreciate the Tao |
| PerlJam | rhizo: freeing your mind from the worry of memory allocation is always good too |
| sili | merlyn: there is context. you just haven't seen it. |
| merlyn | story of my life! |
| somian | merlyn's seen some latex in his time, tho that's almost like context, i hear. |
| merlyn | pretty close! |
| puddingpimp | merlyn, that link sili just posted |
| merlyn | context = SMS messages from prison |
| action | somian groans |
| somian | groans |
| puddingpimp | merlyn, some ass hat posted said task on getacoder.com |
| sili | those sites are so horrible it's always $small_biz wanting $complicated_thing for $5 |
| merlyn | and $1 through $4 are undef! |
| rhizo | PerlJam: yes, though things aren't quite as peachy when it comes to memory deallocation, what with perl's reference counting habits, but yes, it feels good to skip malloc() |
| arpwatch | Do you guys think the perl cookbook with its chapter of CGI Programming is too outdated to learn from? |
| PerlJam | arpwatch: depends on what you're trying to learn :) |
| arpwatch | I'm just trying to learn how to do cgi the right way instead of pre-fxing every line with: print "etc etc etc\n" |
| sili | perlbot: cgi |
| perlbot | Common Gateway Interface - http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html, http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html, http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ |
| sili | perlbot: tutorial |
| perlbot | http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Tutorials | http://perl.com/cs/user/query/q/6?id_topic=74 | http://learn.perl.org/ | http://books.perl.org/onlinebooks | http://perl-begin.berlios.de/tutorials/ | http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ |
| rhizo | the most recent cookbook should be more or less up to date learning CGI from a cookbook is probably a bad idea |
| PerlJam | arpwatch: that really has nothing to do with CGI. |
| merlyn | learning to cook from the camel book is also a bad idea. arpwatch - I've written dozens of articles that contain "CGI" |
| arpwatch | yeah...I have a cd with 6 perl programming books circa 1999. |
| merlyn | that's probably a lot more interesting for learning basic strategis was that bookshelf 1 or 2? does it have the alpaca? |
| arpwatch | bookshelf? hmm |
| PerlJam | as long as you aren't using that russian oreilly pirate site. |
| merlyn | your cd with 6 perl books |
| cfedde | 'Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz". ' |
| revdiablo | cfedde: Sounds thrilling |