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Re: Confessional

by Elgon (Curate)
on May 02, 2001 at 23:29 UTC ( [id://77475]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Confessional

Forgive me father Larry for I have sinned many times in the past month and greivous is the burden.

  • I did fail in my promise to log into perlmonks once a day. Indeed I have only logged in three times in the past month.
  • I did knowingly downvote a post because I didn't like the poster's name.
  • I did write today in my Matlab exam some of the most heinous cruft ever to have graced paper. I only thank Larry that it will hopefully never get near a networked computer and risk escaping into the wide beyond. It would have worked though. In this sin is included the crime of cargo-cult code, direct translation from perl to matlab where possible and not using matlab's nice functions instead.

  • I have not booted up my laptop or programmed Perl in over a month.
In my defence I can only say that I've been busy having exams, shooting competitions and that most distracting of posessions Elgon ducks a girlfriend. I also wrote on my exam paper that the last question (basically a regexp exercise in a language without regexps) that it could be solved with a Perl one liner as opposed to about ten lines of matlab and then proceeded to play Perl golf, albeit badly, with the possibilities.

Elgon

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Re: Re: Confessional
by Anonymous Monk on May 03, 2001 at 16:52 UTC

    In this sin is included the crime of cargo-cult code, direct translation from perl to matlab where possible and not using matlab's nice functions instead.

    Isn't it ironic to sin while using Matlab?

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