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From: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: London.pm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:09 PM
Subject: Microsoft.FUKT
``Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering the movement to give
away and share software code, arguing that it potentially
This is great news for people who aren't huge fans of
Redmond Empire --
not only is the spinfo in the article largely wrong (but
superficially
plausible, typical FUD) but there's nothing they can do about it!
They're in trouble and they know it.
Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:48:46AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
And much, much more!
we'll switch to using . instead of -
Yay!!
p6-languageBut then what do you use to
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
i kind of like - from a visual point of view.
Your eyes will be adapted to server perl6.
/borg
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Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And they didn't eat as many waffles as we did.
ahhh waffles, a classic student food - what did you eat your waffles
with? i ate mine with mayo and chick sticks (fish finger like bits
processed chicken)
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Greg McCarroll
* at 04/05 10:22 +0100 Dave Hodgkinson said:
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i kind of like - from a visual point of view.
much more like APL... ;-)
i'd not know about that. seem to recall seeing an example of APL in a
book once and it looked very scary. or it might have been
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 4:07 PM
They really don't learn do they?
The thread beginning with
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4666 is a
hoot. I particularly like the post where our hero says:
No,but its true-- strict
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:25PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Oh, and you've just gotta love the mentality that sees 'gay' as an insult.
Gives a real feel for the kind of person we're dealing with :)
Just to clarify is this the 13 year old?
Dean
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Profanity is the one
From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 4:30 PM
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:25PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Oh, and you've just gotta love the mentality that sees 'gay' as an
insult.
Gives a real feel for the kind of person we're dealing with :)
Just to clarify
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Well, the 13 year old now claims to be 20. But no, this is his friend bk who
kills people for a living in Hereford!
Um. I no longer want children.
Dean
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Profanity is the one language all programmers understand
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And they didn't eat as many waffles as we did.
ahhh waffles, a classic student food - what did you eat your waffles
with? i ate mine with mayo and chick sticks (fish finger like
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Dean wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Well, the 13 year old now claims to be 20. But no, this is his friend bk who
kills people for a living in Hereford!
Um. I no longer want children.
You *wanted*
Alex Page sent the following bits through the ether:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:54:05PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Dean wrote:
Um. I no longer want children.
You *wanted* them? :-)
Deep fried?
Tastes like chicken!
Leon
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Leon
At 05:07 PM 5/4/01 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Thought you might be interested in this post from our frind the Hereford
Killer. Someone posted some code that used for(;;) loops. And this was bk's
response:
[snipped excellent advice]
Remember, for loops are for JS, not perl. You cant use semicolons
Andrew Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[1] If he weren't such a twit he'll compliment you on your ability with the
English language once he realises you're not American! (As in the American
lady who struck a conversation with my mother - after a few minutes the
American lady said Gee. You
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thought you might be interested in this post from our frind the Hereford
Killer. Someone posted some code that used for(;;) loops. And this was bk's
response:
begin_quote
Erm, My eyes keep darting to your FOR loops. For is mainly used in
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Robert Price wrote:
Maybe we should send him the London pm review copy of the new Learning Perl
when it arrives. I'm sure he'll appreciate this goodwill jesture,
especially if a certain few take the trouble to autograph it for him.
And our masterful
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:54:05PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Um. I no longer want children.
You *wanted* them? :-)
Not really, guess I'm proof of Darwinism at work ;)
As an aside think of his parents sitting there become more and more filled
with dread and fear as they realise that
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:33:16PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:29:10PM +0100, Martin Ling typed:
And our masterful social engineering strategy for getting his address
is...?
Tell him he's gay if he doesn't admit his address.
...say YOUR GAY and
I've got bored with my Defender, so am selling it. Anyone interested?
ObLondon.pm: defender beats watching buffy on the stupid-box any day of
the week.
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David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote:
I've got bored with my Defender, so am selling it. Anyone interested?
ObLondon.pm: defender beats watching buffy on the stupid-box any day of
the week.
the '80's video arcade game? ... hmmm .. well, if it was Pheonix Firebird
I might have been tempted ;)
--
still, if damian gets his way we'll no doubt be able to have
modules/filters that mean we can still use - :)
I *guarantee* it!
It will definitely be possible in Perl 6, because even with our primitive
earth technology we can do the reverse today:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:14:47PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
package DotsForArrows;
use Filter::Simple;
FILTER { s/\b\.(?=[a-z_\$({[])/-/gi };
That's BORING. Obviously the right way to do it is to allow lvalue
overloaded operators, and overload . for everything.
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The
At 17:56 04/05/2001, Dean wrote:
Does the author of the book take an interest in the web group? I'd hope
she'd be on there correcting him.
She's around occasionally. She's a bit busy at the moment - getting the
next edition finished before her baby is born later this month.
Dave...
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* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:10:41PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I'd be tempted Dave, but as I got the high scores on the machine
on my first go at it in a few years I don't really see the
challenge anymore ;-)
Thanks for reminding me to
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote:
The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant
is forever blessed.
-- Old Japanese proverb
The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant
is
Damian Conway sent the following bits through the ether:
I suppose you'll want me to put that on the CPAN now. ;-)
Yes. Didn't we sponsor you for this ;-)
Leon
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Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/
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