user t'mo     <p>(new!)</p> <h1>Soon-to-be Classic Quotes</h1> <ul> <li>[id://315159|adrianh's clever remarks] about the condition of some poor saps without a "...tight grip on the clue stick..."</li> <li>[id://530743|merlyn says]: "...capture the regularities with code, and the irregularites with data..."</li> </ul> <h1>Perl-ish insights I've had</h1> <ul> <li>[id://43258|This reply] on the topic of Prgramming(<a href="#peeves">!</a>) vs. Coding.<br>I would still be interested to see how music has affected other people's <em>programming</em>. After all, I was a musician<a href="#bioMusic">*</a> before I was a programmer...</li> <li>[id://46872|A reply I made] to the "remedial map" thread.<br>My insight into <code>map</code>, shallow as it is, became obvious to me as I pondered the following bit of Smalltalk code: <blockquote><code> | aCollection aNumber | aNumber := 0. aCollection := #('one' 'two' 'three'). aCollection do: [ :element | aNumber := aNumber + 1. ] Transcript cr; show: 'There are ', aNumber asInteger, ' of strings in your collection of strings.'. </code></blockquote> It got even better when I equated <code>map</code> with this: <blockquote><code> | aCollection anotherCollection | aCollection := #('one' 'two' 'three'). anotherCollection := aCollection collect: [ :element | element ]. </code></blockquote> Smalltalk is still a neat, powerful language (as is Perl).</li> <li>[id://34223|This is my favorite]. It was about the time that I was able to formulate a question like this that I began to grok Perl. Well, began to begin to grok Perl. References were the first big leap for me...</li> </ul> <a name="bioMusic"></a> <h1>Music is great</h1> <p>What else can I say about this? Only that performing is more enjoyable that listening. Here are the instruments I play, in decreasing order of skill:</p> <ol> <li>string bass</li> <li>piano</li> <li>guitar</li> </ol> <p>At one job I had, one of the survey questions (How well do you like working at this place? Are you satisfied with working conditions? management? coworkers? etc.) was whether or not I felt all my "career goals" could be met working with this company. No way! (unless they're going to start a house orchestra or band sometime soon...)</p> <a name="bioComp"></a> <h1>Computer languages I know something about</h1> <p>...but not necessarily a lot about; I'm still learning.</p> <ol> <li>Applesoft basic -- my first and only!</li> <li>Logo -- well, maybe the turtle was the first...</li> <li>Fortran-- of which I forgot everything I ever learned.</li> <li>Forth -- I bet you haven't heard of it; too bad for you.</li> <li>C++ -- college days.</li> <li>Java -- <strike>more college days</strike> using at the new job.</li> <li>VB -- (h)ack!</li> <li>C -- at the end of the college days; kind of backwards, don't you think? (the order I learned them, that is)</li> <li>SQL</li> <li>Perl -- picked up a little in college; now I know a bit more...</li> <li>Smalltalk -- one of the things I get paid to do (but see below).</li> <li>JavaScript -- this is the most recent addition to my collection; I'm amazed at how Perlish it can be at times (but if I read the <a href="http://devedge.netscape.com">docs</a> right, that's what the creators of the language intented), which lets me get some things done when I'm stuck at work without Perl</li> <li><small>ASP/VBScript/more VB -- I know, but I gotta' pay the <strike>rent</strike> mortgage.</small> (well, as of June 6, see "Java" above)</li> <li>Lotus Notes programming/design ("design" is in there because most of what you do in Notes is not coding)</li> <li>C#</li> <li>PHP</li> </ol> <p>Of course, I should also throw in a bit of shell programming as well...how could you use Linux without it?</p> <a name="peeves"></a> <h1>Still important enough to leave in here</h1> <p><a href="http://www.m-w.com">Learn to spell!</a></p> <hr noshade> <p><i><small>(Which came first: parentheses or parenthetical remarks?)</small></i></p> <hr noshade> <p>Well, as of today (10/14/2003) I have <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17645">assumed new powers</a>. (I'm only recording that fact so I can find the node describing those powers again after I've forgotten what they are.)</p> 2010-10-09 19:40:07 698 358889 172620 115 Cleveland, Ohio area -5 on 80 on