At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:44:25 +0000, Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said:
> > Data Munging with Perl
> > by David Cross
> >
> > Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760
> >
> > Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867!
>
> a day in the life of a famous perl author:
>
> goto: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110006/
>
> while (1){
> look at sales rank
>
> sleep 300
>
> hit refresh
> }
This is so true.
Actually, the only difference between Perl authors and any other
authors is that we write scripts to do this an send us sms messages
whenever the sales rank changes[1]
Dave...
[1] Or, at least, we think very seriously about it :)
