FoxtrotUniform

User since:	Jul 10, 2001 at 00:32 UTC (20 years ago)
Last here:	Dec 14, 2006 at 09:46 UTC (14 years ago)
Experience:	11493
Level:	Prior (17)
Writeups:	611
Location:	Port Moody, BC, Canada
Location:	cs.sfu.ca
Location:	use Perl
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Do you misuse apostrophe's? Don't.

Haskell is delightfully ambiguous, especially by analogy.
--Markov FoxtrotUniform

So it isn't good. Thanks FU.

--Markov diotalevi

I became Perl Monks' 103rd Saint on June 4th, 2002.

Nodes that impress me Nodes that I'm proud of

Tricks with DBI by btrott
Web Logs Using DBI also by btrott
Why I like functional programming by tilly
Automatic Music with Perl by larsen
Any interesting philosophy of programming articles to recommend? by tilly
The Joy of Test by Ovid
7 Stages of Regex Users by japhy
Remember, before you consider, please, Please, PLEASE: by kudra (This should be required reading for all new Friars)
Style geekcode by Juerd
Re (tilly) 1: Discipline by tilly
The path to mastery by tilly
Inline POD vs. EOF POD by lachoy
Choose the most powerful language by tilly
Re: Breaking output lines into N-element chunks by merlyn (My question has a higher rep than merlyn's answer, but this node is really the gem of the thread.)
Damian Conway claims that I "get it" in a public forum!
Vampire Numbers by YuckFoo
The Case for Learning Perl by newrisedesigns
Re: encryption (chi-squared test) by gumby
(tye)Re: A question of style by tye: just in case you thought that &foo() would implicitly pass @_ to foo, or something.
Common Beginner Mistakes by chromatic
I refuse to explain this by Dominus. Holy shit.
Perl and Prolog and Continuations... oh my! by adrianh. Read it several times until it makes sense. The coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Re: Re: Best Practices for Exception Handling by Ovid. A very good explication of orthogonality in tiered systems.
$bad_names eq $bad_design by Ovid. Do you still think that the coding-style Nazis are irrelevant pedants? This'll learn ya.
Linear Fractal Generator by BronzeWing. Fractals are cool.
Tripwire tests and future-proofing by dws. Automated testing can catch assumption-violations as well as more mundane bugs.
Triangle Numbers Revisited by Limbic~Region. Still more crazy math shit; I just can't get enough of the stuff.

A small (but growing) collection of obfuscations:

I tend to think that writing obfuscations with strict and warnings is more fun.

%/usr/games/fortune -o

GOD is applied POWER

which is applied GOVERNMENT
- which is applied POLITICS
  - which is applied ADVERTISING
    - which is applied SOCIOLOGY
      - which is applied PSYCHOLOGY
        which is applied BIOLOGY
        which is applied CHEMISTRY
        which is applied PHYSICS
        which is applied MATH
        which is applied PHILOSOPHY
        which is applied BULLSHIT

Cheers,

Matt
Just another Perl-(and Scheme-, and C-, and Haskell-)hacking, guitar-playing, sesquipedalian, vim-using graphics geek in a trenchcoat