So is it feasible that I could define an object in C# that fires a ReleaseMe event when it's finished with itself, at which point it gets garbage collected?
From what I can tell, the translation of the Unix billboard (which isn't an error - it looks like Dutch unix) is something along the lines of:
For anyone who has listed in their CV (resume) that their work is their hobby and they are creative or innovative, send them an email with the subject set to "Your place is in Hilversum" (?), and tell 'em to go check out the URL: http://www.omroep.nl/gurus/
Not sure about the subject line, but that's a pretty darn nifty advertisement, for damned sure. I'd send 'em my resume...
Science exists to serve the needs of humanity, to allow continued growth and expansion, and to build a better world for future generations.
If science, at a banal level, in some way prevents wars from happening (and wars are, by their very nature, enhanced entropy of humanities efforts), then it is serving its purpose. It may not be glamorous, it may be very banal, but don't nag it. It's at the very *least* a rise, and one shouldn't argue about whether a rise is big enough or not.
As to your other point, I don't disagree that we, the common folks, should think about things that have already been decided for us, and you are 100% correct that it is extremely dangerous thinking, so I don't take it as a flame.
But there's a nuance to that, and that is fundamental human trust. In this particular context, extremely good minds have tackled the issues of human space exploration, from both a science/humanities perspective, as well as a political one (and in this case, that's a very important consideration), and decided that we should go ahead and build the ISS.
I simply request that my fellow peers here on Slashdot, those of us who have an interest in space, attempt to look further than the average knee-jerk reaction to space exploration would allow, and see that there are "greater good" considerations in the ISS space program that are not obvious when an analysis is done based on mass-media filtration of facts regarding the program...
I've been using my BUNG cart kit for the last year to upload up to 30 ROM's to one cart. If you can still buy them in the US, they're a much better investment than to build your own... work quite well.
Nothing like having a library of 1000's of games at hand for the gameboy, though I have to admit that the thrill of playing GB has gone. I think that a big part of the 'mystique' about the GB scene from a consumer perspective was in *NOT* having all the cartridges - you buy one, play it for a while, etc. When you've got 1000's of ROM's at hand, and you can choose your own game selection to carry 30 games with you, the GB gets boring fast.
You start to see just how mundane the game design industry really is, when you've had access to hundreds of games in a matter of hours. I think this same effect is experienced by Game Magazine reviewers, and I start to see just how jaded things can be...
Maybe the real reason that game mfr's don't want everyone to have every ROM instantly downloadable in a large gigantic mega-library is the fact that by having access to it, people start to see just how crappy things really are in the design realm...
I certainly stopped playing GB for a while after I got my cart setup...
Simple. The Russian economy is sucking ass right now. You've got a lot of hightly trained areospace engineers not being paid. The US is worried about ICBM technology falling into the hands of rogue nations. Now presented with the delimina of either paying the Russians to build a big orbiting can of people for no real purpose other than to furthering the "industry" of puting cans of people into orbit and some crap about "furthering international relations"; or have the Russians getting paid to put bombs on missles for everyone with 50 million dollars; which one do you the the US government would choose?
Fine, I'll grant you that that's a possible reason for all of this.
I fail to see why this is a bad thing? After all, as an American citizen (presumably), you'd be one of the recipients of said Russian-built, rogue-nation launched rockets.
So, ISS and Mir and whatnot keep this from happening. Cool. That's good science, and good effective use of public funds, imho. So what's the problem?
However, in this thread, I believe you may have missed my earlier point which is simply this:
Better men than you or I have argued *for* space, and we're going to space, and the ISS is being built, and it's happening. Any attempt at arguing against it is really just masturbation - economies will be built based on the science performed, experiments in human scientific endeavours will be conducted, and rogue terrorist anti-US nations will be prevented from using tired and hungry Russian space scientists to build missiles to attack the American heartland.
In which case, we should all be celebrating the long overdue launch and docking of Zvezda, and be happy that the ISS is under way.
The best minds of many nations have given us this gift, and we ought to be moderately appreciative...
Just because you fail to see the benefits of the space program, doesn't mean that thousands of Russian scientists who put their hearts and souls into the program don't see why it's necessary.
You think those guys are just sitting around in mission control going "well gee, duh, this space stuff sure is fun... Lets eat raw potato while we flink stuff around in space"?
I don't think so. They, along with thousands and thousands of support personnel in the space and aviation industry, understand the importance of the space program to the expansion of human science.
There is so much for the future of Russian economy to be gained from the space program, its not even funny. Space manufacturing, medicine, electronics - all of these human endeavours stand to benefit from research to be done on the ISS over the next few years, and the Russians know this just as well as any corporate bigwig at McDonnall/Douglas or Boeing.
Space is probably about the only thing the Russians are good at, as an industrialized nation, right now, and so it follows that they are putting their heart and soul into continuing to lead and participate in human exploration of space. Russian pursuits of space programs are *vital* to the future economic stability of the Russian system, since it's among the few truly exportable industries that Russia has right now, having lost a great deal of her productive power due to Communist misguidance.
That you cannot see this, or are unwilling to be able to even *think* that scientists and great minds of this ilk have an accute awareness of the benefits for what they're doing, belies your pop-culture, spoon-fed, MTV instant fix upbringing.
The hard working souls behind every nations space program are doing it for humanity, and for the benefits it will bring to humanity in the coming years - and while it may not seem too accessible to the plebian uneducated masses such as yourself right now, you (or, god help us if you breed, your children) will most certainly stand to benefit from it in the future.
King's mechanism for sales is based on the Street Performer Protocol, which you can read more about there:
http://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.html
Doesn't actually matter if it becomes known as Kings method, as long as it becomes known as a popular method for artists to bypass the industry leeches and actually make their own decent profit...
I used a Pika Daytona card with 4 i/o lines activated, and the ACS (now called Bayonne) Telephony system to build the scripts.
Custom-built tgiexec (tgi=Telephony Gateway Interface) scripts to be run from the ACS IVR system to give me details on the system, run commands, play back results, etc.
Considering cleaning it up for open source release in the near future. It's definitely way cool to be able to admin a Linux box with a telephone from anywhere in the world!:)
Wouldn't be too difficult to build an Apple G4-like tower of PC104 components and match the overall form factor... as for the case, well a little soft-form plexiglass and an old frying pan, and you can make your own damned PC104 cube.
Anyone else notice the similarity between PC104 carrier cages and the G4 cube? That little module animation of the G4 cube looks a lot like the various computer modules in the Shuttle's experimenter bays, for example... and that's industry-standard rack gear.
No reason we can't follow suit. Just find a cheap supply of PC104 components, build a stack, and away you go. Simple.
I think it is only a matter of time before we see some sort of standard interface to application-level attributes. I mentioned this in another comment, but I think this is best done in a separate userland library, not tied to any particular filesystem or desktop environment. GNOME and KDE are both heading in this direction, but I consider that too far up the UI food-chain. This should be done at a level only slightly above the standard C library.
Its almost like we need another variable type in our programming languages...
1. Local Variable. 2. Global Variable. 3. System-accessible Variable. 4. Static's, etc.
Should be fairly easy to implement this as a C library. We could also have var-access functions defined fairly easily too - i.e. a program declares and exports as a #3-type, a method to be used for modifying and reading that a #3 var...
This would be *VERY* easy to build, and we just set up a user-land server to marshal all calls for this data, with its own security mechanism.
If it could be a slide-in C library that worked, and had a good overall design, this could easily become fairly stable in Unix...
Heck, even some library that allowed an app to pass off it's var's as XML-typed data to a socket somewhere would be quite handy.
... at "Vermont" restaurant just down the street from me here in Hollywood. Didn't think to look who she was with - there were about 7 other people at the table. Come to think of it, one of them did look like Robert Patrick.
Hmm... I should've taken a closer look. *Definitely* looked like an industry meeting, though. Gillian had a very stern look on her face, listening to the guy across the table explaining something.
Would be very interesting to know the details of exactly what Pizza Hut ended up funding...
Perhaps they signed a contract to provide Russian scientists with free beer and pizza during those late night "How do we get the farty smell out of the Mir?" sessions, or something?
I really find it hard to believe that there weren't other offers to fund this program by other space entrepreneurs, at least somehow? Are American millionaires that uptight about helping the Russians out? Surely there are thousands of private candidates out there that would've leaped at the chance to give a $20million check (not really a lot of money these days) to the Russians, and added their bit to the program?
I really don't like the looks of that Pizza Hut logo on the side of that rocket. It gives me a queezy feeling to know that some megacorp can come up with cash to fund things like this (very important things, I might add) where governments have failed.
Damnit. I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
One the plus side, that is one damned efficient rocket engine. Man, it looked sweet on launch - did anyone else notice the lack of oxidation? Is this some difference between the fuel technologies the Russians use over American launches? I seem to remember its got something to do with their use of kerosene over American's use of some other thing, but I forget the details.
Sure could roast some good pie with that rocket. Damnit.
... too much lawyerease for me, and besides it sounds like he's just whining that the defendants (2600) are out to get him.
Can anyone else provide a succinct summary of the document, in plain English, that explains just what the fuck the Judge is trying to say, and how he figures he's still qualified to preside over this case, given that he's done work for Time/Warner?
Unfortunately saying "Operater" does NOT get you to a human [no matter how loud you scream it:) ].
This probably isn't a bug in the voice recognition software - its probably the company justifying *not* having the expense of having a live operator waiting to take the call by implying that it's a bug in the VR software...
You might think I'm being conspiratorial, but having worked in the telephony business for the last couple of years, I can say with all honesty that this is standard practice. Anything that will cut costs on telephone front lines, a company will do... particularly a large one like Sears, with its legions of consultants.
As for the misorder, well that would suck, but it wouldn't last long - there's definitely ways to ensure this doesn't happen, such as order verification before the customer hangs up...
Telephones are everywhere. If you can replace the computer interface experience, currently dominated by keyboards/mice/video screens, with a telephone, you can do a *whole* heck of a lot more with the computer than you thought.
Think e-commerce.
It's far easier for a consumer to pick up a phone and talk to a computer to place their order for X widgets than it is for them to log on to the Internet, type in a URL, etc. *Far* easier.
This will be the 'tractor app' for voice recognition, and in many cases it already is... Called AT&T customer support lately? Probably half of that call was handled by a computer listening to what you were saying...
Other posters are correct in saying that it may not seem appropriate right now, just like the WIMP interface didn't seem appropriate in the early 80's, but there *will* be uses for it.
I've already built a Telephony-based interface to my Linux web server. From anywhere in the country, I can call it up, get an uptime reading, ask for a running total of web orders, restart the web process, even shut the machine down, all over the telephone.
Telephones are an ideal interface to a computing system. Okay, so you're not gonna want to play Quake with it (though I'm sure some fool hacker will add it, heh heh), or play with the Gimp over the phone (hey, whatever turns you on), but there are plenty of interfaces that could be replaced with the telephone and be a *hell* of a lot easier for people to use - web forms, for example, could really easily be replaced with a voice recognition software-running dialup #...
The way I see Perl is that if you have a messy mind, you'll create crappy perl. If you've got a focussed mind, you'll create focussed perl. You impose the discipline on perl, it doesn't impose the discipline on you. It's the most direct and natural way I've ever seen for transferring thoughts to real code. (Painting By Numbers doesn't count).
Over the years, I've hacked around in Perl, never really caring much to fully learn it properly in the same way that I've learned C/C++/Java and more recently, Object Pascal (Delphi). I've got 4 pretty good Perl books on my shelf, and haven't really even bothered to get more than a few pages in... using them mostly as references for when I inherit a Perl project from some other poor soul.
It always comes off to me as being a sort of a 'dirty' language in that there are about a kajillion different ways to do the same thing - and I've never much cared for the way variables are declared and used in Perl (scalars?). Too much use of symbols, not enough grammar.
The limited Perl I have written has filled me with nothing short of a maniacal desire to become a darned good Python programmer.
I understand that Perl ties a lot of the web together, and it definitely has its uses, but my initial reaction to the news that Perl was getting a rewrite was "about time, coz it's a gnarly language"... I guess however, that this rewrite will address the engine more than the language itself, no?
What language-based improvements will this rewrite address, any of you Perlverts know?
Considering that the MS file format also contains a unique identifier for each installation, registering your details with Microsoft also implies that any.doc file you create with your copy can be traced back to you.
So, say you write up a "New Manifesto for Violent Technological Overthrow of the US Republic" using Word. Your.doc file gets around, and you get a following - including one from the FBI who happen to be able to access MS' registration database to find out just who authored the.doc.
Registering is a lot more insidious than you think. If you register at all, use fake information.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would you want to back out of CindyMargolis? I'd wanna stay there until I was done...
So is it feasible that I could define an object in C# that fires a ReleaseMe event when it's finished with itself, at which point it gets garbage collected?
From what I can tell, the translation of the Unix billboard (which isn't an error - it looks like Dutch unix) is something along the lines of:
For anyone who has listed in their CV (resume) that their work is their hobby and they are creative or innovative, send them an email with the subject set to "Your place is in Hilversum" (?), and tell 'em to go check out the URL: http://www.omroep.nl/gurus/
Not sure about the subject line, but that's a pretty darn nifty advertisement, for damned sure. I'd send 'em my resume...
Well it's not really science now is it?
Umm, yes, it is.
Science exists to serve the needs of humanity, to allow continued growth and expansion, and to build a better world for future generations.
If science, at a banal level, in some way prevents wars from happening (and wars are, by their very nature, enhanced entropy of humanities efforts), then it is serving its purpose. It may not be glamorous, it may be very banal, but don't nag it. It's at the very *least* a rise, and one shouldn't argue about whether a rise is big enough or not.
As to your other point, I don't disagree that we, the common folks, should think about things that have already been decided for us, and you are 100% correct that it is extremely dangerous thinking, so I don't take it as a flame.
But there's a nuance to that, and that is fundamental human trust. In this particular context, extremely good minds have tackled the issues of human space exploration, from both a science/humanities perspective, as well as a political one (and in this case, that's a very important consideration), and decided that we should go ahead and build the ISS.
I simply request that my fellow peers here on Slashdot, those of us who have an interest in space, attempt to look further than the average knee-jerk reaction to space exploration would allow, and see that there are "greater good" considerations in the ISS space program that are not obvious when an analysis is done based on mass-media filtration of facts regarding the program...
I've been using my BUNG cart kit for the last year to upload up to 30 ROM's to one cart. If you can still buy them in the US, they're a much better investment than to build your own ... work quite well.
...
Nothing like having a library of 1000's of games at hand for the gameboy, though I have to admit that the thrill of playing GB has gone. I think that a big part of the 'mystique' about the GB scene from a consumer perspective was in *NOT* having all the cartridges - you buy one, play it for a while, etc. When you've got 1000's of ROM's at hand, and you can choose your own game selection to carry 30 games with you, the GB gets boring fast.
You start to see just how mundane the game design industry really is, when you've had access to hundreds of games in a matter of hours. I think this same effect is experienced by Game Magazine reviewers, and I start to see just how jaded things can be...
Maybe the real reason that game mfr's don't want everyone to have every ROM instantly downloadable in a large gigantic mega-library is the fact that by having access to it, people start to see just how crappy things really are in the design realm
I certainly stopped playing GB for a while after I got my cart setup...
Simple. The Russian economy is sucking ass right now. You've got a lot of hightly trained areospace engineers not being paid. The US is worried about ICBM technology falling into the hands of rogue nations. Now presented with the delimina of either paying the Russians to build a big orbiting can of people for no real purpose other than to furthering the "industry" of puting cans of people into orbit and some crap about "furthering international relations"; or have the Russians getting paid to put bombs on missles for everyone with 50 million dollars; which one do you the the US government would choose?
Fine, I'll grant you that that's a possible reason for all of this.
I fail to see why this is a bad thing? After all, as an American citizen (presumably), you'd be one of the recipients of said Russian-built, rogue-nation launched rockets.
So, ISS and Mir and whatnot keep this from happening. Cool. That's good science, and good effective use of public funds, imho. So what's the problem?
However, in this thread, I believe you may have missed my earlier point which is simply this:
Better men than you or I have argued *for* space, and we're going to space, and the ISS is being built, and it's happening. Any attempt at arguing against it is really just masturbation - economies will be built based on the science performed, experiments in human scientific endeavours will be conducted, and rogue terrorist anti-US nations will be prevented from using tired and hungry Russian space scientists to build missiles to attack the American heartland.
In which case, we should all be celebrating the long overdue launch and docking of Zvezda, and be happy that the ISS is under way.
The best minds of many nations have given us this gift, and we ought to be moderately appreciative...
Just because you fail to see the benefits of the space program, doesn't mean that thousands of Russian scientists who put their hearts and souls into the program don't see why it's necessary.
You think those guys are just sitting around in mission control going "well gee, duh, this space stuff sure is fun... Lets eat raw potato while we flink stuff around in space"?
I don't think so. They, along with thousands and thousands of support personnel in the space and aviation industry, understand the importance of the space program to the expansion of human science.
There is so much for the future of Russian economy to be gained from the space program, its not even funny. Space manufacturing, medicine, electronics - all of these human endeavours stand to benefit from research to be done on the ISS over the next few years, and the Russians know this just as well as any corporate bigwig at McDonnall/Douglas or Boeing.
Space is probably about the only thing the Russians are good at, as an industrialized nation, right now, and so it follows that they are putting their heart and soul into continuing to lead and participate in human exploration of space. Russian pursuits of space programs are *vital* to the future economic stability of the Russian system, since it's among the few truly exportable industries that Russia has right now, having lost a great deal of her productive power due to Communist misguidance.
That you cannot see this, or are unwilling to be able to even *think* that scientists and great minds of this ilk have an accute awareness of the benefits for what they're doing, belies your pop-culture, spoon-fed, MTV instant fix upbringing.
The hard working souls behind every nations space program are doing it for humanity, and for the benefits it will bring to humanity in the coming years - and while it may not seem too accessible to the plebian uneducated masses such as yourself right now, you (or, god help us if you breed, your children) will most certainly stand to benefit from it in the future.
.. from now on, alas.
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King's mechanism for sales is based on the Street Performer Protocol, which you can read more about there:
http://www.counterpane.com/street_performer.htm
Doesn't actually matter if it becomes known as Kings method, as long as it becomes known as a popular method for artists to bypass the industry leeches and actually make their own decent profit...
I used a Pika Daytona card with 4 i/o lines activated, and the ACS (now called Bayonne) Telephony system to build the scripts.
:)
Custom-built tgiexec (tgi=Telephony Gateway Interface) scripts to be run from the ACS IVR system to give me details on the system, run commands, play back results, etc.
Considering cleaning it up for open source release in the near future. It's definitely way cool to be able to admin a Linux box with a telephone from anywhere in the world!
Yeah, but the G4 Cube costs way more than an iMac...
Check this out:
... as for the case, well a little soft-form plexiglass and an old frying pan, and you can make your own damned PC104 cube.
... and that's industry-standard rack gear.
PC104 Starter page
Wouldn't be too difficult to build an Apple G4-like tower of PC104 components and match the overall form factor
Anyone else notice the similarity between PC104 carrier cages and the G4 cube? That little module animation of the G4 cube looks a lot like the various computer modules in the Shuttle's experimenter bays, for example
No reason we can't follow suit. Just find a cheap supply of PC104 components, build a stack, and away you go. Simple.
I think it is only a matter of time before we see some sort of standard interface to application-level attributes. I mentioned this in another comment, but I think this is best done in a separate userland library, not tied to any particular filesystem or desktop environment. GNOME and KDE are both heading in this direction, but I consider that too far up the UI food-chain. This should be done at a level only slightly above the standard C library.
Its almost like we need another variable type in our programming languages...
1. Local Variable.
2. Global Variable.
3. System-accessible Variable.
4. Static's, etc.
Should be fairly easy to implement this as a C library. We could also have var-access functions defined fairly easily too - i.e. a program declares and exports as a #3-type, a method to be used for modifying and reading that a #3 var...
This would be *VERY* easy to build, and we just set up a user-land server to marshal all calls for this data, with its own security mechanism.
If it could be a slide-in C library that worked, and had a good overall design, this could easily become fairly stable in Unix...
Heck, even some library that allowed an app to pass off it's var's as XML-typed data to a socket somewhere would be quite handy.
... at "Vermont" restaurant just down the street from me here in Hollywood. Didn't think to look who she was with - there were about 7 other people at the table. Come to think of it, one of them did look like Robert Patrick.
Hmm... I should've taken a closer look. *Definitely* looked like an industry meeting, though. Gillian had a very stern look on her face, listening to the guy across the table explaining something.
Well, as useless as it is, that's what I saw.
Would be very interesting to know the details of exactly what Pizza Hut ended up funding...
Perhaps they signed a contract to provide Russian scientists with free beer and pizza during those late night "How do we get the farty smell out of the Mir?" sessions, or something?
I really find it hard to believe that there weren't other offers to fund this program by other space entrepreneurs, at least somehow? Are American millionaires that uptight about helping the Russians out? Surely there are thousands of private candidates out there that would've leaped at the chance to give a $20million check (not really a lot of money these days) to the Russians, and added their bit to the program?
Fuck. What a shallow world we live in.
I really don't like the looks of that Pizza Hut logo on the side of that rocket. It gives me a queezy feeling to know that some megacorp can come up with cash to fund things like this (very important things, I might add) where governments have failed.
Damnit. I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
One the plus side, that is one damned efficient rocket engine. Man, it looked sweet on launch - did anyone else notice the lack of oxidation? Is this some difference between the fuel technologies the Russians use over American launches? I seem to remember its got something to do with their use of kerosene over American's use of some other thing, but I forget the details.
Sure could roast some good pie with that rocket. Damnit.
It wasn't flamebait (at least I didn't intend to flame), and thanks for the link to Icon.
Something to digest this evening.
... too much lawyerease for me, and besides it sounds like he's just whining that the defendants (2600) are out to get him.
Can anyone else provide a succinct summary of the document, in plain English, that explains just what the fuck the Judge is trying to say, and how he figures he's still qualified to preside over this case, given that he's done work for Time/Warner?
Unfortunately saying "Operater" does NOT get you to a human [no matter how loud you scream it :) ].
This probably isn't a bug in the voice recognition software - its probably the company justifying *not* having the expense of having a live operator waiting to take the call by implying that it's a bug in the VR software...
You might think I'm being conspiratorial, but having worked in the telephony business for the last couple of years, I can say with all honesty that this is standard practice. Anything that will cut costs on telephone front lines, a company will do... particularly a large one like Sears, with its legions of consultants.
As for the misorder, well that would suck, but it wouldn't last long - there's definitely ways to ensure this doesn't happen, such as order verification before the customer hangs up...
I used to have a very large and handy string handling library for C in my toolkit, but lost it during a disk crash some years ago.
I have often wondered if anyone has ever started a project to build a good quality text/string handling library for C - anyone know?
Might be handy to bang some stuff together.
Telephones are everywhere. If you can replace the computer interface experience, currently dominated by keyboards/mice/video screens, with a telephone, you can do a *whole* heck of a lot more with the computer than you thought.
Think e-commerce.
It's far easier for a consumer to pick up a phone and talk to a computer to place their order for X widgets than it is for them to log on to the Internet, type in a URL, etc. *Far* easier.
This will be the 'tractor app' for voice recognition, and in many cases it already is... Called AT&T customer support lately? Probably half of that call was handled by a computer listening to what you were saying...
Other posters are correct in saying that it may not seem appropriate right now, just like the WIMP interface didn't seem appropriate in the early 80's, but there *will* be uses for it.
I've already built a Telephony-based interface to my Linux web server. From anywhere in the country, I can call it up, get an uptime reading, ask for a running total of web orders, restart the web process, even shut the machine down, all over the telephone.
Telephones are an ideal interface to a computing system. Okay, so you're not gonna want to play Quake with it (though I'm sure some fool hacker will add it, heh heh), or play with the Gimp over the phone (hey, whatever turns you on), but there are plenty of interfaces that could be replaced with the telephone and be a *hell* of a lot easier for people to use - web forms, for example, could really easily be replaced with a voice recognition software-running dialup #...
The way I see Perl is that if you have a messy mind, you'll create crappy perl. If you've got a focussed mind, you'll create focussed perl. You impose the discipline on perl, it doesn't impose the discipline on you. It's the most direct and natural way I've ever seen for transferring thoughts to real code. (Painting By Numbers doesn't count).
This is a good point, well received.
Hey, no fair! Firstly, I'm not a Python zealot. I don't even really know Python too well yet.
My point was, I just don't find Perl to be particularly aesthetic, and was wondering if anything is going to be done to fix that in the rewrite...
Over the years, I've hacked around in Perl, never really caring much to fully learn it properly in the same way that I've learned C/C++/Java and more recently, Object Pascal (Delphi). I've got 4 pretty good Perl books on my shelf, and haven't really even bothered to get more than a few pages in ... using them mostly as references for when I inherit a Perl project from some other poor soul.
... I guess however, that this rewrite will address the engine more than the language itself, no?
It always comes off to me as being a sort of a 'dirty' language in that there are about a kajillion different ways to do the same thing - and I've never much cared for the way variables are declared and used in Perl (scalars?). Too much use of symbols, not enough grammar.
The limited Perl I have written has filled me with nothing short of a maniacal desire to become a darned good Python programmer.
I understand that Perl ties a lot of the web together, and it definitely has its uses, but my initial reaction to the news that Perl was getting a rewrite was "about time, coz it's a gnarly language"
What language-based improvements will this rewrite address, any of you Perlverts know?
Considering that the MS file format also contains a unique identifier for each installation, registering your details with Microsoft also implies that any .doc file you create with your copy can be traced back to you.
.doc file gets around, and you get a following - including one from the FBI who happen to be able to access MS' registration database to find out just who authored the .doc.
So, say you write up a "New Manifesto for Violent Technological Overthrow of the US Republic" using Word. Your
Registering is a lot more insidious than you think. If you register at all, use fake information.
Oops found some more:
http://www.itron.gr.jp/panph98/panph98-e.html
http://www.itron.gr.jp/