[boulder.pm] desperately need help

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Fri Jan 26 09:58:25 CST 2001


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Randall Fowle wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Walter Pienciak wrote:
>
> > i2's product suite.  I need programmers and data modelers.  Some of the
> > technical consultnats we already have know Perl, oil, shell script, ect.
>
> Pardon me for asking something non-Perl-related--or for that matter, not
> even related to this e-mail--but this sparked my curiosity.  Who or what
> is "oil"?
>
> --
> Randy Fowle (bmozart at frii.com)
> 10 Chuwen 14 Muwan 12.19.7.16.11
> 12 Tun, 1 Winal, 9 K'in until the end of time and counting

Har.  Sure it's Perl-related.  Anything is Perl-related.  It's all a
matter of syntax.

  my $question = qx/apropos oil/;

I have no idea what oil is.  I can't even think of a vaguely close
sounding acronym.

Maybe I need more coffee still, but . . . that's a cryptic .sig ya
got there . . .

Walter




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