Yes, there is a book about object-oriented perl. The book is very good, too. Damien Conway did a pretty good job; the book is well written and even funny at times. Unfortunately, it is the concept itself which is dreadful. Perl has not been designed as an OO language, and it shows. The typical idea in this book is something on the line of: "{awful tangle of perl concepts and syntax} is nothing but a {OOP concept}, if you think for a moment about it". I bought the book with my best intentions. I like perl, I use it a lot, and I like the way Conway writes. I really WANTED to add OOP to my perl. I tried, but I found OO perl to be beyond my threshold of self-defense. It is just TOO convoluted. I recongnize that, on an intellectual level, adding OOP to Perl without breaking anything has been a really remarkable result. But understanding and using it is another matter... If you really want OOP, I suspect you'd better look elsewhere. Java maybe?
> in may parts of the EU, people will make major purchases in cash,
> yes even houses and these people have their cash legally too! Well, some of them.
> Certainly, there are a lot of quite legitimate users of high value bills here.
I don't know about the rest of the eurozone, but in Italy cash transactions above a certain threshold (about 10000 euro, IIRC) are a criminal offence. You have to pay by check, bank transfer, or other traceable means. This was decided as a measure against large criminal organizations (mafia).
Not just all the Europe has ID cards. Great Britain does not have them, and has strong ideas about this too. For example, try a search for "id card" on BBC news and you will find quotes such as:
"widespread repugnance at the prospect of the police... being empowered to stop someone in the
street and demand the production of an identity card".
I found this interesting. I live in Italy, where we are so accustomed to the idea of ID cards and lots of other documents, that recently someone talked about taking fingerprints to all the population (no joking) and it seemed nearly normal. The problem with "safety" and police measures is that once they are in place, after a while you forget it is NOT normal, they become invisible in a sense. I suspect this is also the way not-so-nice police states are created. Also called the "boiled frog" procedure (erode rights in many nearly-invisible increments and no one will notice).
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I agree. A FAQ about open source licenses (not just GPL) is a necessity. I am reading slashdot & c since years and still I realize I haven't a very clear idea about these topics... If I had to release an open source package tomorrow, I would not really know "how" to release it. And "GPL it because everyone does this" is not a very satisfying argoment to me... I suppose I am not the only one in this situation:)
Some months ago I have read that a similar technology is going to be tested in a selected group of houses in Milano, Italy. The expected bandwidth is around 1Mb/s. Unfortunately I have no link or better details on this...
I fully agree. Hotmetal is WYSIWYG, which is convenient for heavily graphic pages and tables, but also is very clean with HTML, and has a very good code (text) editor, plus the nice intermediate "tags" view. I think it's the best solution around: it has the advantages of frontpage-like solutions, but is also a very good tool for writing or tuning HTML directly. After all, Softquad has a history as producer of SGML tools...
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> then (iirc) was purchased by some large corporation or other
:)
Yes. This particular large corporation is known as "Microsoft". And Firefly Networks' flagship product was called "Passport". Ever heard of it?
Yes, there is a book about object-oriented perl. The book is very good, too. Damien Conway did a pretty good job; the book is well written and even funny at times. Unfortunately, it is the concept itself which is dreadful. Perl has not been designed as an OO language, and it shows. The typical idea in this book is something on the line of: "{awful tangle of perl concepts and syntax} is nothing but a {OOP concept}, if you think for a moment about it".
:)
I bought the book with my best intentions. I like perl, I use it a lot, and I like the way Conway writes. I really WANTED to add OOP to my perl. I tried, but I found OO perl to be beyond my threshold of self-defense. It is just TOO convoluted.
I recongnize that, on an intellectual level, adding OOP to Perl without breaking anything has been a really remarkable result. But understanding and using it is another matter... If you really want OOP, I suspect you'd better look elsewhere. Java maybe?
Just my little experience
Not true. The giant red neon logo in one of the most famous scenes in the movie belongs to a well-known company that is still in very good health.
This is open to many interpretations...
> in may parts of the EU, people will make major purchases in cash,
> yes even houses and these people have their cash legally too! Well, some of them.
> Certainly, there are a lot of quite legitimate users of high value bills here.
I don't know about the rest of the eurozone, but in Italy cash transactions above a certain threshold (about 10000 euro, IIRC) are a criminal offence. You have to pay by check, bank transfer, or other traceable means. This was decided as a measure against large criminal organizations (mafia).
In Asimov's Second Foundation (1953) there is the "Transcriber". Now known as "voice recognition"!
Well, in this case maybe FOF would be more aesthetically pleasing...
If the third state is implemented as a negative voltage, then I suggest that the three states are named: ON, OFF and NO.
Because NO is the reverse of ON.
For example, try a search for "id card" on BBC news and you will find quotes such as: "widespread repugnance at the prospect of the police
I found this interesting. I live in Italy, where we are so accustomed to the idea of ID cards and lots of other documents, that recently someone talked about taking fingerprints to all the population (no joking) and it seemed nearly normal. The problem with "safety" and police measures is that once they are in place, after a while you forget it is NOT normal, they become invisible in a sense. I suspect this is also the way not-so-nice police states are created. Also called the "boiled frog" procedure (erode rights in many nearly-invisible increments and no one will notice).
I agree. A FAQ about open source licenses (not just GPL) is a necessity. I am reading slashdot & c since years and still I realize I haven't a very clear idea about these topics... If I had to release an open source package tomorrow, I would not really know "how" to release it. And "GPL it because everyone does this" is not a very satisfying argoment to me... :)
I suppose I am not the only one in this situation
Some months ago I have read that a similar technology is going to be tested in a selected group of houses in Milano, Italy. The expected bandwidth is around 1Mb/s. Unfortunately I have no link or better details on this...
I fully agree. Hotmetal is WYSIWYG, which is convenient for heavily graphic pages and tables, but also is very clean with HTML, and has a very good code (text) editor, plus the nice intermediate "tags" view. I think it's the best solution around: it has the advantages of frontpage-like solutions, but is also a very good tool for writing or tuning HTML directly.
After all, Softquad has a history as producer of SGML tools...