Perl trick

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12:19 * rjbs wants macros in Perl.
12:19 rjbs: Lisp-style? :)
12:19 of course
12:20 * rjbs wants a simple expression that can evaluate to "warn and next"
12:20 (loop-assert cond message)
12:21 which would become (unless (cond) (warn message) (next))
12:22 sub `loop_assert { my ($cond,$warn) = @_; unless($cond) { warn $warn; next } }
12:22 heh
12:24 er... wait...
12:24 that works!? next will propagate up the call stack?
12:24 how did I not ever know this?
12:24 That's what the ...

posted: 2005-08-26 22:09:59 Read More

Open Source Beastie Boys

BeastieBoys.com

From the graphic: We've launched a new section on the site offering Beastie Boys A Cappellas for you to download and use for your own personal remixes (along with tempo information for most tracks). We'll be updating it each week for the next little while with a new one for you to download.

Awesome!

posted: 2005-08-23 07:15:48 16 comments Read More

Ben's first language

I suspect that Ben's first language ( well, first language after english ) will be ruby.

Well, that is if they don't end up slowly ruining the language in much the way that has occurred in other languages. ( *cough -- every scripting language that starts with a p )

For all the talk about ruby's improved semmantics, can someone explain the 'case' command? 'Case' is not a verb, and it is used in a manner that is 180 degrees out of phase with all languages that have descended from C. Why ...

posted: 2005-08-14 23:10:39 3 comments Read More

"CPAN".replace(/CP/, "JS")

O'Reilly Radar > JSAN, the JavaScript Archive Network

"It seems every Perl hacker I spend any more than five minutes with these days is neck deep in JavaScript."

Boy, ain't that the truth! My biggest disappointment in perl has been in trying to get larger groups working together well, but unless all of your coders are at the same skill level, its hard to get past maybe three.

But all is not lost. Many ...

posted: 2005-07-30 14:30:12 25 comments Read More

Python, it's the new Perl

Seriously. The last time I looked at python seriously was 1996. Then it felt very 4GL'ish. Blech. Plus, when everyone you know is a c/c++ coder it was hard to get people to respect scripting languages. Well, fast forward almost 10 years and guess what? It's still hard to get people to respect scripting languages, but all of that time and experience has only strengthened my appreciation of them.

If you come from a C++ background, Perl is at once disgusting and amazing, but the brace structure ...

posted: 2005-07-29 22:04:40 6 comments Read More

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