[DFW.pm] example deduplication code and full disclosure

[Tommy Butler]

Wow!  I'll take that compliment, sir!  "Greater love no man hath than he
that complementeth the Perl of his friends" (or something like that, right?)

** *One thing to note for anyone trying out that code: it just got some
important bug fixes, so you'll want to git pull* **

--Tommy Butler

On 12/30/2013 02:38 PM, Rob Eaglestone wrote:
> That's beautiful Perl, Tommy.  I see I will have to replace my old
> "Programming Perl" book with one updated for the 2000s (mine is dated
> 1996, and shows Perl at version 5.003).
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Tommy Butler
> <dfwpm at internetalias.net <mailto:dfwpm at internetalias.net>> wrote:
>
>     Full disclosure: I'm not competing in the contest as John and I
>     are hosting it and have written the code that generates the random
>     dataset.
>
>     However I wrote some example code that does work and which I'd
>     like to share to help give others a gentle push if anyone is
>     having trouble getting started.
>
>     Feel free to steal/fork/laugh at the code as much as you like. 
>     The code isn't extensively commented but it is very readable. 
>     It's also simple and concise and makes use of  CPAN modules, some
>     of which use XS code to get performance gains -- which is within
>     the rules for the "traditional Perl solution" competition category.
>
>     One provision is that my code purposely does not solve all the
>     problems.  In particular it doesn't handle hard links.  That's up
>     to you to solve.
>
>     https://github.com/tommybutler/dupfind
>
>     --Tommy Butler
>
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