| dec | yes, Botje? |
| Botje | `Monie: oh well, have fun wasting your own time |
| action | VeXocide momples something about a square wheel and reinventing it |
| VeXocide | momples something about a square wheel and reinventing it |
| `Monie | Will do. |
| BinGOs | and will you look at that. Parse::IRC also parses IRC numerics properly. |
| `Monie | I am. |
| BinGOs | and lends itself to using dispatch tables. |
| `Monie | BinGOs: Couldn't I make a regular IRC Client using this? |
| BinGOs | sure. whatever. |
| `Monie | hmm bbl |
| VeXocide | grin |
| infi | "thanks" |
| Yaakov | `Monie: Always assign the results of m// to meaningful scalars or an array. It will save you heartache and confusion. |
| BinGOs | *sigh* why won't people just do it my way. |
| Yaakov | `Monie: Consider @a=/pattern/ and using constants for the array indices. |
| VeXocide | BinGOs: my bot does it your way, and once you get your way, it works pretty nicely :) |
| BinGOs | o/` Over and over, over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal o/` |
| dec | BinGOs: stubbornness. |
| VeXocide | probably just plain stupid :p |
| BinGOs | contrariness |
| dec | on another note, breakfast cereal at 9:30pm just doesn't seem "right" |
| Yaakov | Some people have the idea it is a good way to learn. I don't think it is the best way to learn, personally, but indviduals vary. |
| VeXocide | dec: you think ? :p |
| BinGOs | anyways, is this the five minute argument or the full half-hour ? |
| dec | who's arguing? didn't you win? |
| Botje | oh sorry, this is abuse. you want next door. |
| VeXocide | lol |
| dec | BinGOs: proceed with your regular programming. |
| Yaakov | On the whole it is probably better to *encourage* people to learn good perl coding practice than to prove that perl users are a bunch of insufferable hoohahs. |
| VeXocide | Yaakov: learning doesn't mean reinventing the wheel for the ten zillionth time, at least not for me just how many irc bots based on POE were there again ? ;) |
| Yaakov | VeXocide: There are many opportunities to learn. If I person fixes his mind on one path it is probably better to help him do the right thing on that path then to abuse him for choosing it. |
| static_perl | what is POE? |
| BinGOs | lots. |
| VeXocide | Yaakov: yeah, that's true though |
| BinGOs | http://poe.perl.org/ |
| static_perl | Perl Object E.. |
| BinGOs | POE is a framework for creating event-driven multitasking programs in Perl. |
| VeXocide | POE is short for POEP, which means shit in dutch :) |