[Omaha.pm] ChemChains, DLUG, ..etc.

[Jay Hannah]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Lawless, Jim wrote:
> Hey, Jay.  I wish I'd have paid more attention ... I would've  
> chatted you up while we were waiting for the classroom to open last  
> night.  ( I was about the only other one there ... black shirt and  
> jeans ... while Blaine and his crew talked . )

Nice to meet you. Sorry we didn't chat.   :)
> I was briefly a loyal Omaha Perl Monger ... I'd had that Obfuscated  
> Perl contest 2nd place winner ... which, BTW, is now in the  
> O'Reilly book Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture ... I'm  
> immortally indexed on page 498 ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ 
> tpj3/inx.html ).  Maybe I'll get to chat with you a the next meeting.
>
Ahh, cool. You're listed in our history:

http://jays.net/wiki/Omaha_Perl_Mongers#2003_and_earlier

I have a copy of that book at the med center. I'll have to look up  
that page.   :)
> Thanks for your presentation of the ChemChains effort and your  
> modeling program in Perl.  I'm tempted to try a stab at it myself,  
> but I'm not sure that I undertstand the problem correctly. (  For  
> some reason, I'm thinking that I would implement the nodes as  
> function-defintions that I would eval() into the running  
> interpreter for Perl or Ruby or something and would then just call  
> these functions ... but that seems too simple.)
>
Well, I'm not sure I understand the problem either, so you're in  
"good company." Of course I understand my implementation of my  
solution according to the way I understand the problem pretty well. - 
laugh-  I'm hoping ideas and questions like yours and the C++ version  
and others will help me understand the problems better and evolve the  
software and my ability to wield my computer skills in the  
advancement of medical research... It's a long journey with many  
winding side roads.  :)

I avoid eval() whenever possible, so I wouldn't use that in one of my  
solutions. Have you looked at the code yet? Do you have specific  
questions? Or would a longer meeting be good?

We could organize a Perl Mongers / Dynamic Languages Users Group  
ChemChains meeting/hackathon or something and invite whoever wanted  
to show up.  :)

http://jays.net/wiki/ChemChains_sandbox

Cheers,

j