Re: [FWP] Real World Perl

[Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> 
> Those of us who have been on this mailing list since its inception know
> that Vicki's original intent in founding the list was to share bits of Perl
> code like this, where the puzzle is to figure out what they're supposed to
> do, why they work, and what a good way to do it would have been.
> 
> It's true that the list now focuses more on challenges and Perl golf, but
> these code snippets are still fun as well.  I'm rather put off by the
> implication that Vicki's posting to her own mailing list doesn't qualify as
> being fun.

Thanks for the repost, and sorry if my tongue-in-cheek speculation came
across as implying that Vicki's message was off topic.  Such can happen
in text-only communication, and smileys etc. may not always help.

Maybe I just let too much of my bitterness show, since the function she
posted was all too familiar.  My first reaction, before I remembered
where I was, was "Oh, another one.  Should I fix this or should I leave
it and do something that actually makes a difference?"

Luckily, in this job I only have to deal with Dreamweaver-generated
HTML, which is sane enough once all the FONT tags are stripped away.
And one Matt Wrong script, which I don't have to touch unless I feel
like it, and when I will, it'll most likely be with rm(1).

-- 
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"I couldn't write a serious program from scratch to save my life. As an admin I
often have to write little programs (mostly in shell and perl) to deal with the
fact that many professional coders share my disability."    -- Bill Cole in sdm


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