Re: [FWP] Re: PerlOS

[methabol@hem.passagen.se (Dan Zetterstrom)]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 21:52:59 +0100, you wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:07:55AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>> > @s = ("fate", "anoints", "idle", "coders"); @a = ("kill", "apropos",
>> > "pico", "ispell");print join(' ', ($s[0]..$a[0])[83813],
>> > ($s[1]..$a[1])[188889], ($s[2]..$a[2])[123871],
>> > ($s[3]..$a[3])[52995357]);
>
>That is really, truly horrible. It runs out of memory on my 288Mb machine.
>I assume that it prints `whfg nabgure crey unpxre | rot13`...
>
Hmm... 
- It uses an insanely amount of memory.
- It takes forever and forever to do it's task.
- ...but will crash on most systems long before it's done anything
useful.
- Its use is very limited and trying to adapt it to something else
would probably be futile.
- It's doing something that's been done faster and more elegantly
literally hundreds of times before.

It must be... MS JAPH 2000!

//DZ
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Come the end, the only thing remaining
was the darkness in his soul.
Facing his fate with serenity
never to awake from the digital daydream.

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