[Boulder.pm] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9

Walter Pienciak wpiencia at thunderdome.ieee.org
Wed Aug 22 20:00:44 PDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0700, Kate wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Walter Pienciak
> wrote:
> > I'm a cheater:
> > 
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > 
> > system("cat $0");
> > 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's idiomatic Perl (or at least idiomatic
> Unix programming), but if I was feeling snarky I'd just install
> Quine.pm via CPAN, curse at it for a while when it fails to
> install due to Mac issues, grab my linux laptop instead because
> this quine is for something mission critical and I can't afford
> to waist time on incompatibilities and anyway no-one uses Macs,
> yadda yadda, "use Quine;", profit. Sadly that's actually a win
> over some of the stuff I've seen with Ruby gems.
> 
> -- Kate

Ah, the places we've been and the shit we've seen, plumbing the
nether regions of other peoples' code.  (Apologies to anyone who's
had to work on MY code.  ;^)

Hey, I still have a milk crate full of your golf discs at my
house.

Walter


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