<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div>Still a cool solution.....sucks it only works on unix/linux ;-)<br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "boulder-pm-request@pm.org" <boulder-pm-request@pm.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> boulder-pm@pm.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 11<br> </font> </div> <br>
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(Kate)<br> 3. Re: Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9 (Rob Nagler)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:05:47 -0600<br>From: Walter Pienciak <<a ymailto="mailto:wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org" href="mailto:wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org">wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org</a>><br>To: Ed Dow <<a ymailto="mailto:eddow1976@yahoo.com" href="mailto:eddow1976@yahoo.com">eddow1976@yahoo.com</a>>, <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [<a target="_blank" href="http://boulder.pm/">Boulder.pm</a>] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:20120822160546.GA29148@thunderdome.ieee.org" href="mailto:20120822160546.GA29148@thunderdome.ieee.org">20120822160546.GA29148@thunderdome.ieee.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>On Wed, Aug 22,
2012 at 09:01:41AM -0700, Ed Dow wrote:<br>> 6. Re: Roll Call (Ed Dow)<br>> <br>> Foo... always glad to have a fellow tech interested in Perl, no matter how "noobish" the questions.? Throw some out here.? Who knows you might ask something that hasn't been discussed in a while or maybe never.? ;-)<br>> <br>> Here's a brain tickler for everyone.... write a quine (a program that outputs itself exactly) in Perl.? This was a question I was asked in a recent interview.? In my opinion, completely unfair and technically usless but everything is fair game in the interviewing process.? <br><br>I'm a cheater:<br><br> #!/usr/bin/perl<br><br> system("cat $0");<br><br>Walter<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:29:41 -0700<br>From: Kate <<a ymailto="mailto:rise@knavery.net" href="mailto:rise@knavery.net">rise@knavery.net</a>><br>To: Walter Pienciak <<a
ymailto="mailto:wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org" href="mailto:wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org">wpiencia@thunderdome.ieee.org</a>>, <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:6FF0311B68644C69B6985EC27A3D4978@knavery.net" href="mailto:6FF0311B68644C69B6985EC27A3D4978@knavery.net">6FF0311B68644C69B6985EC27A3D4978@knavery.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Walter Pienciak wrote:<br>> I'm a cheater:<br>> <br>> #!/usr/bin/perl<br>> <br>> system("cat $0");<br>> <br><br>I'm pretty sure that's idiomatic Perl (or at least idiomatic Unix programming), but if I was feeling snarky I'd just install <a target="_blank" href="http://quine.pm/">Quine.pm</a> 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.<br><br>--<br>Kate<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:06:44 -0600<br>From: Rob Nagler <<a ymailto="mailto:nagler@bivio.biz" href="mailto:nagler@bivio.biz">nagler@bivio.biz</a>><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:boulder-pm@pm.org">boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Boulder.pm] Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 9<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAJB=V02Ji8HQp+ByoCTGacByFMqmcB++<a ymailto="mailto:nFc4FjkDf3nAR9Y-fQ@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:nFc4FjkDf3nAR9Y-fQ@mail.gmail.com">nFc4FjkDf3nAR9Y-fQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Self-replication reminds me of Hofstadter's I am a strange loop:<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop<br><br>Rob<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Subject: Digest Footer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Boulder-pm mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Boulder-pm@pm.org">Boulder-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boulder-pm</a><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>End of Boulder-pm Digest, Vol 39, Issue 11<br>******************************************<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>