Re: [FWP] Quine, ontology, and Perl

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 11 May 2000, at 17:57, Philip Newton wrote:

> John Carter wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> > 
> > > Cheating is fun:
> > >           perl -e'die`nc a.tm 9000`' 
> > > 
> > > Gee, I'm famous now!
> > 
> > What does 'nc' do and why do you expect a file a.tm to exist?
> 
> nc is probably "netcat" -- connect to <host> on <port> and transfer data.
> a.tm == 195.126.62.76 == bigmac.neopoly.de . If you connect to this host on
> port 9000, it'll send you the string "Just another Perl hacker,\n" and then
> close the connection. nc takes this string and passes it to stdout, whence
> it's captured by `backticks`.
> 
> Works fine on a Linux box I use.

Not on mine, and it highlights why that approach is not in the spirit of 
JAPH.  Consider doing the following:

cat >a <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
echo Not a Perl Hacker
EOF
chmod +x a

and then you have:
    perl -e 'die`a`'

Do I win???

  /Bernie\
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