User since: Jan 02, 2001 at 12:46 UTC (25 years ago) Last here: Mar 15, 2004 at 15:41 UTC (22 years ago) Experience: 4660 Level: Priest (14) Writeups: 279 Location: Winnipeg Author of: Elements of Programming with Perl User's localtime: Feb 07, 2026 at 23:42 -06 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

Poetry is a many-to-many encryption of meaning. (me)

They're not soaking, they're rusting!! (my wife, on my dishwashing habits)

Things are not always what they seem.(Phaedrus Fables, Book IV, circa 8 A.D.)

Links to a few things I've written:

• Regexen (the free regular expression chapter from my book: offsite of course).
• Archive of my past ItWord.com Perl newsletters: (offsite)
  • all in plain text
  • two thirds converted to my blog
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• On asking for help (for those new here)
• looping over multiple arrays (using a closure iterator)
• just another perl faq'er (just for fun)
• I really did this (twice!)
• avoid excessive nesting
• a little golf
• Literate Perl?
• don't get bit by split

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill; On Liberty, 1859

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefitted. Herbert Spencer; Social Statics, 1850

But who protects us from the good guys? anonymous