Re: Computers and Programming

[gmax]

Unfortunately, sometimes, your understanding and the computer's understanding of the same action take different paths.
When I say

my $string = 'I am a "Perl programmer", you are a "piece of rust"';
$string =~ /"(.*)"/;
print "$1\n";

I expect the stupid machine to spit out 'Perl Programmer'. Instead, I get 'Perl programmer", you are a "piece of rust'

The machine has converted some understanding into action. But it wasn't my understanding. :(

Therefore, programming is to translate my understanding into the machine's understanding. :)

$string =~ /"([^"]*)"/; # 'Perl programmer'

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[tmiklas]

Well - what to say?

Maybe you use a language dialect that the interpreter doesn't understand ;-)
IMHO each part of the (working) code is an instance of specific art - coding styles differ. I think that mine is ugly (becouse it's mine ;->) and the code i can find here is great (in most cases it's much shorter and faster and still does the same thing)...

But as i said - it's just my humble oppinion ;-)

Greetz, Tom.

[clemburg]

You have expressed your stated understanding incorrectly. That's all.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com