What's a perl person then?
Got this through the email. Where do Perl people fit in? Unix person: So then he tried to su to chroot, but of course the crontab wasn't even mounted because there were four spaces instead of a tab in the getty sed awk ^] sh ksh zsh | and that's why we're getting another three E45000s to run it on. Other unix person: haw haw haw! Computing is truly an art. Windows Person: We spent 50 hours optimizing the drawing routine so as to produce proper antialiasing even on strange hardware, but in the end we couldn't roll it out because none of the sysadmins knows how to. Other windows person: oh well. Java person: We spent 3000 hours optimizing the drawing until finally it could run on a pentium II. Now we just have to make sure the users have I.E.4.8 with the JDK1.3.1 plugin, J3D 2.x, and at least DBTools 2.2 or above, and the correct classpath, and odbc settings, and one of the default fonts that actually works. If not, our six months of work will be completely wasted. Other java person: Failure is impossible. We will prevail. Setbacks are irrelevant. The fools just don't understand that this is JAVA. Jonathan PetersonIdeas Hub Ltd (t) +44 (0)20 7487 1310 www.ideashub.com
Re: What's a perl person then?
Jonathan Peterson wrote: Got this through the email. Where do Perl people fit in? Unix person: So then he tried to su to chroot, but of course the crontab wasn't even mounted because there were four spaces instead of a tab in the getty sed awk ^] sh ksh zsh | and that's why we're getting another three E45000s to run it on. Other unix person: haw haw haw! Computing is truly an art. Windows Person: We spent 50 hours optimizing the drawing routine so as to produce proper antialiasing even on strange hardware, but in the end we couldn't roll it out because none of the sysadmins knows how to. Other windows person: oh well. Java person: We spent 3000 hours optimizing the drawing until finally it could run on a pentium II. Now we just have to make sure the users have I.E.4.8 with the JDK1.3.1 plugin, J3D 2.x, and at least DBTools 2.2 or above, and the correct classpath, and odbc settings, and one of the default fonts that actually works. If not, our six months of work will be completely wasted. Other java person: Failure is impossible. We will prevail. Setbacks are irrelevant. The fools just don't understand that this is JAVA. perl person: Hacked a drawing program in 2 hours. other person: That long, oh dear .. Greg Jonathan PetersonIdeas Hub Ltd (t) +44 (0)20 7487 1310 www.ideashub.com
Re: What's a perl person then?
Greg Cope wrote: perl person: Hacked a drawing program in 2 hours. other person: That long, oh dear .. perl person: yeah but I was drunk at the time. Oh and it sends mail. And it's written in Latin. And none of the sub routines are actually called. It just sort of guesses which one you want. And it plays music to you depending on what you're drawing. other person: yeah, but two hours? for a one line program? perl person: I suppose so. Fancy a pint? other person: compare! swap! perl person: oh shut up. ;)
