On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:22:33PM -0400, Gyepi SAM wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:01:09PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
first off, why are there so many languages? and by many, i mean
thousands and more. how many of you have invented a language (even a
mini-lang)?
There are many reasons
Have you heard of not taking it all so seriously?
Ah, my apologies. I never found insult comedy funny.
As far as I could tell, Andrew Dice Clay really was
a racist, a homophobe, and a mysoginist, and not just
kidding around about it.
But, some people found him hilarious.
As far as I could
should you learn assembler? is there work in it (yes)? what would
assembler teach you when using a high level lang?
Absolutely! I thoroughly enjoyed learning assembler. Though I no longer
program in it, I still look at the assembler my compilers generate.
The only assembler code I write
Gyepi SAM wrote:
Both. People have to understand the language well enough to write, read,
and
maintain programs, but the machine runs it. One has to find the right
level
of expression to achieve both goals effectively. In the, infrequent, case
of a
conflict I invariably choose people over
The first Davis Square Tech Social went well, with good conversation,
and a nice mix of area ruby and perl folks (I'd failed to post to the
python list). Thanks to Monte, there's now a mailing list (see below).
There will likely be a second lunch soonish.
Mitchell
Original
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I'm using perl 5.6.1 at work.
I'm trying to use pod as a multiline comment.
This script:
(paste)
my @foods = (
'apple',
'banana',
'cherry',
# this is a multiline comment
=thingy
'potato',
'corn',
=cut
);
(end paste)
gives me an error:
perl
This is valid Perl:
$foo
=bar
;
print $foo\n;
You can't have POD in the middle of a statement.
Ronald
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Gargleblarg!
This is valid Perl:
$foo
=bar
;
print $foo\n;
You can't have POD in the middle of a statement.
Ronald
Thanks for the answer though.
Thought I was losing my mind.
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