THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 23, 2007, 01:42:04 PM
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Since when is "do a diff" an asset tracking mechanism. Guys.
Anyone know good Perl-learning resources? I need to teach myself to parse my way out of their paper bag.
Is there any other language (Ruby? Python? I got nothing) that's good for string parsing? Perl is what seems most regular expressionfully powerful.
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PERL :heart :heart
i would let larry wall cum inside of me. my anus is open source for his installation.
i am a PERL mastar. what do you wish to know? BUY THE CAMEL BOOK NOW NOW NOW.
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"Camel book"?
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The O'Reilly main perl book has a camel on the cover. The camel is perl's fursona.
(http://a7.vox.com/6a00b8ea0728391bc000c11413cc3f819d-500pi)
The dude that wrote it created perl, too.
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fursona :lol
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Fursona: Yiff Your True Mind
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Since when is "do a diff" an asset tracking mechanism. Guys.
Anyone know good Perl-learning resources? I need to teach myself to parse my way out of their paper bag.
Is there any other language (Ruby? Python? I got nothing) that's good for string parsing? Perl is what seems most regular expressionfully powerful.
If you are trying to write a text parser, perl or python would well. My main problem with perl is readability-god help you understand it if you didn't write the perl code you're looking at. Python is a bit more conventional in its syntax.
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I just talked to a programmer and he was like PYTHON! and gave me the O'Reilly Python Cookbook (fursona: some rabbity meercat thing). So I guess I'm throwing my hat in the Python ring. Sorry, Perl!
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why would pythons fursona be a rabbity meercat thing? shouldn't it be a snake?
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O'Reilly books have weird animals on them. My owl book, for example,somehow represents regular expressions! ??? ???
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O'Reilly books have weird animals on them. My owl book, for example,somehow represents regular expressions! ??? ???
I may be misremembering, but don't the books usually offer some explanation for why they picked the animal on the cover?
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The animals change for whatever reason. The new editions of the Python one does have a snake on it. And I know I have an old edition of either Oracle or SQL that has an owl and now they have bugs and reptiles and shit.
I have an older version of that Perl book, but I've never really put it into practice. I have good experiences with other O'Reilly books, though. Recommended total.
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python is for feggits. sorry, patel, had a series of meetings and then lunch and then another meeting; did you still need a perl assist?
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O'Reilly books have weird animals on them. My owl book, for example,somehow represents regular expressions! ??? ???
everyone knows that a bactrian camel supports implicit type casting and conversion!
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it's too late I've gone over to the python side :-* :-* :-*
(actually a tools programmer has taken pity on me and is gonna give me a perl necklace. imma still learn python tho.)
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~+=/s/+`^&(+~/$
I think that compiles. (not really, but the language really is ridiculous and is obviously designed for smelly superbeard Unix jockeys)
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(http://www.zone38.net/font/saturno.gif)
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~+=/s/+`^&(+~/$
I think that compiles. (not really, but the language really is ridiculous and is obviously designed for smelly superbeard Unix jockeys)
well, it's valid if you have explicit set to off -- for the current local variable ($_), perform an indirect and implicit substitution on the pattern for 1 or more non-whitepsace characters followed by a "`" and a recursion to the character or string referenced by "&(". maybe. the second "~" is throwing me off.
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You should write it in Brainfuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck)...
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everyone knows that a bactrian camel supports implicit type casting and conversion!
that's a dromedary camel.
yes I know that. shut up.