user FoxtrotUniform Do you misuse apostrophe's? [http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif|Don't]. <blockquote> Haskell is delightfully ambiguous, especially by analogy. --[http://grenekatz.org/cgi-bin/MarkovBot?id=FoxtrotUniform&.submit=|Markov FoxtrotUniform] So it isn't good. Thanks FU. --[http://grenekatz.org/cgi-bin/MarkovBot?id=diotalevi&.submit=|Markov diotalevi] </blockquote> I became Perl Monks' 103rd Saint on June 4th, 2002. <table border=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000066"> Nodes that impress me </td> <td bgcolor="#000066"> Nodes that I'm proud of </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li>[id://7568|Tricks with DBI] by [btrott]</li> <li>[id://7598|Web Logs Using DBI] also by [btrott]</li> <li>[id://34786|Why I like functional programming] by [tilly]</li> <li>[id://151249|Automatic Music with Perl] by [larsen] </li> <li>[id://106109|Any interesting philosophy of programming articles to recommend?] by [tilly]</li> <li>[id://158399|The Joy of Test] by [Ovid]</li> <li>[id://42330|7 Stages of Regex Users] by [japhy]</li> <li>[id://159189|Remember, before you consider, please, Please, PLEASE:] by [kudra] (This should be required reading for all new Friars)</li> <li>[id://154071|Style geekcode] by [Juerd]</li> <li>[id://70113|Re (tilly) 1: Discipline] by [tilly]</li> <li>[id://26380|The path to mastery] by [tilly]</li> <li>[id://94969|Inline POD vs. EOF POD] by [lachoy]</li> <li>[id://76871|Choose the most powerful language] by [tilly]</li> <li>[id://158371|Re: Breaking output lines into N-element chunks] by [merlyn] (My question has a higher rep than [merlyn]'s answer, but this node is really the gem of the thread.) </li> <li>[TheDamian|Damian Conway] claims that I [id://171423|"get it"] in a public forum!</li> <li>[id://173273|Vampire Numbers] by [YuckFoo]</li> <li>[id://173641|The Case for Learning Perl] by [newrisedesigns]</li> <li>[id://175986|Re: encryption (chi-squared test)] by [gumby]</li> <li>[id://29139|(tye)Re: A question of style] by [tye]: just in case you thought that <code>&foo()</code> would implicitly pass <code>@_</code> to <code>foo</code>, or something.</li> <li>[id://46769|Common Beginner Mistakes] by [chromatic] </li> <li>[id://70901] by [Dominus]. Holy shit.</li> <li>[id://193649] by [adrianh]. Read it several times until it makes sense. The coolest thing I've seen in a long time.</li> <li>[id://231431] by [Ovid]. A very good explication of orthogonality in tiered systems.</li> <li>[id://221498] by [Ovid]. Do you still think that the coding-style Nazis are irrelevant pedants? This'll learn ya.</li> <li>[id://227805] by [BronzeWing]. Fractals are cool. </li> <li>[id://356122] by [dws]. Automated testing can catch assumption-violations as well as more mundane bugs.</li> <li>[id://399054] by [Limbic~Region]. Still more crazy math shit; I just can't get enough of the stuff.</li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top"> <ul> <li>[id://182884|An image-processing approach to a nearest-neighbour/clustering problem]</li> <li>[id://171060|Variable naming, name length, and scope]</li> <li>[id://169802|Some disadvantages to on-the-fly data structures]</li> <li>[id://169608|Problem-solving techniques]</li> <li>[id://168798|Holiday cheer?]</li> <li>[id://165411|Improve your Perl skills by learning other languages, and a digression into currying]</li> <li>[id://164384|Downvotes as pædagogy?]</li> <li>[id://155801|The Principle of Least Surprise]</li> <li>[id://153412|Variable naming, part 2]</li> <li>[id://136103|Optimizing]</li> <li>[id://134531|Why Theory Doesn't Suck]</li> <li>[id://122921|Orthogonality]</li> <li>[id://103605|Yet another reason to use strict]</li> <li>[id://234289|Generating arbitrary labelled trees] </li> <li>[id://380421]</li> <li>[id://392085|Lexically scoped functions are your friends]</li> </ul> <hr> A small (but growing) collection of obfuscations: <ul> <li>[id://188504]</li> <li>[id://369727]</li> </ul> I tend to think that writing obfuscations with <code>strict</code> and <code>warnings</code> is more fun. </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h3>%/usr/games/fortune -o</h3> GOD is applied POWER <ul><li>which is applied GOVERNMENT <ul><li>which is applied POLITICS <ul><li>which is applied ADVERTISING <ul><li>which is applied SOCIOLOGY <ul><li>which is applied PSYCHOLOGY <ul><li>which is applied BIOLOGY <ul><li>which is applied CHEMISTRY <ul><li>which is applied PHYSICS <ul><li>which is applied MATH <ul><li>which is applied PHILOSOPHY <ul><li>which is applied BULLSHIT</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <hr> Cheers, <blockquote>Matt Just another Perl-(and Scheme-, and C-, and Haskell-)hacking, guitar-playing, sesquipedalian, <tt>vim</tt>-using graphics geek in a trenchcoat</blockquote>    2006-12-14 04:46:39 11463 358884 398759 611 Port Moody, BC, Canada</td></tr><tr><td>Location:</td><td><a href="http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mjolson/personal/">cs.sfu.ca</a></td></tr><tr><td>Location:</td><td><a href="http://use.perl.org/~FoxtrotUniform/journal/">use Perl</a></td></tr> -7 72 on