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May. 26th, 2006 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackAnd in the René Magritte[1] stakes, in the staionary cupboard there is a box of invisible tape -- that doesn't have anything in! Truth in advertising?
[1] René Magritte famously produced a painting of a pipe captioned Ceci n'est pas une pipe, or as perl programmers would say, !/|/.
[1] René Magritte famously produced a painting of a pipe captioned Ceci n'est pas une pipe, or as perl programmers would say, !/|/.
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Date: 2006-05-26 12:26 pm (UTC)Do you have invisible tea in your very-non-moving cupboard?
(Do you have moving cupboards as well?)
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Date: 2006-05-26 12:31 pm (UTC)Ooh yes, revile me! Punish me, mistress.Oops. I don't normally get words *that* wrong :)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 12:31 pm (UTC)*has Perl relapse* x_x Don't remind me of that language- I've just spend 500 words or so ripping it to shreds for this damned essay!
By my desk I have an invisible eejit mallet, which is deployed invisibly to damage eejits that question my mighty code, and people that distress me. ;)
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Date: 2006-05-26 12:35 pm (UTC)It's harder than writing PERL in that you have to preface rolling your forehead across the top row of the keyboard 100 times with "PERL is stupid, all the programs look like:" but easier in that the head-rolling thing actually works[1].
[1] Well, ok, it might produce syntax erros, but only in english, they won't stop it being parsed.
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Date: 2006-05-26 12:41 pm (UTC)Perl was OK once I got my head round it, but a) regular expressions make baby Jesus cry, b) All the programs look like $%^&*£/\@~# which is Not Java Dammit*, and c) regular expressions are so bad I thought I'd mention them twice.
Interestingly, I got on better with PHP, which is Perl's slightly nicer non-hillbilly cousin, sans the buck teeth and webbed feet. Who needs Perl anyway, eh?
*I bet someone will tell me that's a valid line of Perl and I'll cry. ;_;
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Date: 2006-05-26 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 07:00 pm (UTC)(For the record, I have learned other languages alongside Java this year, but Java was given priority because it's fairly easy to pick up and employable, or so they tell me....)
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Date: 2006-05-26 05:28 pm (UTC)I'll be happy if I never have to work with Perl again. Give me a language that doesn't make me look like $_$ by the end of it and I'll be happy!
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Date: 2006-05-26 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 07:05 pm (UTC)Aside: I peeked at your userinfo and see you've listed Edinburgh and the Uni- are you also a fellow Edinburger? Oh, and yay for dead languages, from a former Classicist. :)
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Date: 2006-05-26 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 11:02 am (UTC)But I thought I *had*...
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Date: 2006-05-26 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 05:27 pm (UTC)Sorry if I have blasphemed; I am but a trainee geek, so forgive me. *flagellates self with USB cable* ^_~
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Date: 2006-05-26 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-26 08:05 pm (UTC)Scarily, I used mysql_real_escape_string, mysql_connect and a lot of those random array functions in my group project. That kind of makes me feel better taht I plunged myself into it and kind of understood it. You never know, it might be an Employable Skilltm and all that...
PS- Loving the Firefox icon. If I have anything going for me besides poking PHP, I do at least swear by the better browser. :)
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Date: 2006-05-27 01:21 am (UTC)regular expressions are so bad I thought I'd mention them twice.
They're great for matching simple strings. The trouble is they *can* be used to match complicatd things, so people *do*. We need something better, that's less unreadable -- putting regexs in variables and building up like that helps a bit, but people always think that because they CAN do it all in one line they SHOULD...
Heh, I have to lambast Perl, ASP, PHP, JSP, Servlets, Apache Tomcat and IIS for this essay!
Cool. I could probably write 5k words about the names alone ".. really really really ... stupid"
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Date: 2006-05-26 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-26 06:26 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2006-05-27 01:21 am (UTC)