Fwd: Perlish Quote
Peter Scott
Peter at PSDT.com
Sat Feb 22 11:40:31 CST 2003
A friend just sent this to me. Great laugh.
>http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/images.html
>
>ImageMagick is convenient but typing 300 commands like the above for
>each PhotoCD would get tedious. You know that an MIT woman really
>loves you when she offers to spare you the horrors of writing Perl.
>Just grab http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/pcd-to-jpg-and-fpx.txt if you
>want to use the Perl script that my girlfriend wrote as an expression
>of her love for me. Of course, no romance is one sunny Perl-filled day
>after another. When she delivered the code, I complained about the
>lack of data abstraction and told her that she needed to reread
>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Abelson and
>Sussman; MIT Press 1997), the textbook for freshman computer science
>at MIT. I also asked her to rename helper procedures that returned
>Boolean values with "_p" ("predicate") suffixes. She replied "People
>will laugh at you for being an old Lisp programmer clinging
>pathetically to the 1960s" and then dumped me.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
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