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[Jim Lawless]

At 10:20 PM 7/27/05 -0500, you wrote:
>> My biggest Perl claim-to-fame, was placing 2nd in one of The Perl
>> Journal's Obfuscated Perl Coding contests:

Oops.  Actually, I was also a tech reviewer for Scott Mcmahan's
Automating Windows with Perl book ( which was not a good book. )
Randal Schwartz was the other reviewer.  It was nice to see my
name next to his in the preface, even though the book wasn't
very good.

>> http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_3/tpj0203-0012.html
>
>That's awesome! Congrats! How long did that take you? I love Felix's 
>intro on that web site.

Not long.  I had thought about it briefly during the announcement of
the prior year's contest while on a plane.  Since I missed that deadline
for entry, I cobbled the new entry together and sent it off. ( I think I
just barely made the deadline. )


>>  ( Including the first
>> CGI article in print in the pages of a DDJ special edition.  
>Do you have a soft copy of the article?

It's still owned by Dr. Dobbs Journal and appears on their
DDJ compilation CD.

>Can you do a presentation for our next meeting? 

I likely won't have time until next year ... but I'd certainly
consider presenting something.

> I'd love to hear an intro (demo?) of Perl 6 / Parrot, and have 
> someone explain to me why a simple Perl hacker like me should 
> care.  Are you following the Perl 6 
>scalliwag at all? 

I've only read the old Linux mag article on the subject.  I'm intrigued
with the parallel operations they're adding to the language.  I'm not
so enamored with the changes in accesses to arrays and hashes
so that everything follows a notation similar to scalars.  I think Parrot
may open more doors for embedded Perl ... ( as in palmtop phones
and such ... ) ...but I'm not sure.

>> $y=151502483;
>> while($x=$y%113) { print sprintf("%c",$x); $y=int($y/113); }

>Did you know there's actually a simpler way to write that? -poke-

It's been a while since I've plunged into the more esoteric depths of
Perl, and I didn't want to put too much thought into the sig for my
first post.

Jim Lawless
http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo