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Hello, brethren;
I was wondering about a foolish thing: in our Monastery, cradle of wisdom (or su pposedly so), there is an equally wise section named "Cool Uses for Perl".
I realize that too many times I've written silly, stupid insane programs in Perl , some of them, by the way, amusing and somewhat funny, but not properly "cool".
What do you think about a brand new section named "Insane Uses for Perl" ?
Feel free to substitute "Insane" with "mad", "stupid", "terrific", "frightening" , "evil" or any other specification you'd like to read about.
And finally, if many of us should like the idea of reading everyday a new comple tely mad (mis)use of such a beloved programming language, well, let's push towar ds the creation of this new section!
There's no Good without Evil,
We need that just to balance.
And after all,
Who can say
What Evil and Good are?
SiG
perl -le 's ssSss.s sSsSiss.s s$sSss.ss .$s\107ss.print'
P.S.: come on guys, I posted a scripts that rides a skateboard and another that rides a surf in CUFP, do you think it to be cool or insane? ;-P
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by moxliukas (Curate) on Sep 15, 2002 at 10:55 UTC
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In my opinion any perl code that makes me raise the eyebrows because of its application (as opposed to style) it pretty well summarised by the word "cool". Most of the time cool is pretty insane. The programs that are written as insane are actually written for the coolness factor - sort of showing that you can do this insane stuff with Perl, so a proper place for them is a CUPF section, IMHO.
It seems that our society is heading for a place where a distinction between cool and insane is more and more blurred and eventually they will mean the same thing ;)
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2002 at 10:32 UTC
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by bart (Canon) on Sep 15, 2002 at 13:23 UTC
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Backslash found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "$s\"
(Missing operator before \?)
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "107ss"
(Missing operator before ss?)
syntax error at -e line 1, near "$s\"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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I think that Sigmund is trying to use the s character as the delimeter in a substitution. Replacing this with / changes the code from
perl -le 's ssSss.s sSsSiss.s s$sSss.ss .$s\107ss.print'
to
perl -le 's //S/s.s /S/Sis/.s /$/S/s.s/ .$/\107/s.print'
This prints
SisS
Sigmund, is this correct?
UPDATE:
I have just read this node: Beware the S ! where Sigmund explains his signature, so it would appear that there was just a typo in the original post.
The correct version,
perl -le 's ssSss.s sSsSiss.s s$sSss.s s.$s\107ss.print'
works fine and prints
SiG
Basically the 16th s should have been after the space, not before it.
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 16, 2002 at 15:22 UTC
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Okay, an insane use for Perl?
I'd definately have to say using it to control the guidance system of weapons of mass destruction.
Where's the code?
It's non-existant! Who's insane enough to do that?
But just for fun
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 15, 2002 at 18:21 UTC
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Insane Uses for Perl? I thought The Code Catacombs already had a few sections devoted to such usages, ya know, GUI programming and other "don't try this in Perl" projects ;)
Next they'll be trying to write drivers in Perl...
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Like writing a File System in Perl, hahaha...
Ooops. Someone actually made one...
But the link is down. Does anyone know where perlfs went?
____________________
Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.
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I think GUI programming in Perl (for small/medium programs) is not an Insane use for Perl. I agree, it shouldn't be your first choice, but Insane, i disagree.
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Re: Insane Uses for Perl
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Sep 17, 2002 at 12:35 UTC
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How about a "Florida Election Simulator"?
Then again, that would be insanity in any programming language.
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tbone1
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
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