[ABE.pm] next month, a week late

Ricardo Signes perl.abe at rjbs.manxome.org
Wed Mar 27 18:11:59 PDT 2013


* Ricardo Signes <perl.abe at rjbs.manxome.org> [2013-03-14T11:24:38]
> we might be able to get Stevan Little and Shawn Moore to stop in on their way
> to the DC/Baltimore Perl Workshop.

Sadly, no!

But I'll still be there, so party on!

Here, have an amusing excerpt from p5p:

  Each of the core's C source code files start with a quote from Lord of the
  Rings. Many are right on the money. toke.c's is:

   *  'It all comes from here, the stench and the peril.'    --Frodo

  This is quite apt, as toke.c is 12127 lines of near-impenetrable magic.
  Chaim Frenkel's summary is well known:

    Perl's grammar can not be reduced to BNF. The work of parsing perl is
    distributed between yacc, the lexer, smoke and mirrors.

  Larry recently offered a more quantitative evaluation:

    of the four or five ways a compiler can cheat, Perl 5 uses about eight
    of them

-- 
rjbs
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