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Re^2: Back to Perl

by talexb (Chancellor)
on Jan 20, 2005 at 21:00 UTC ( [id://423789]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Back to Perl
in thread Back to Perl

    I tend to take a non trivial algorithm I know well and do my best to implement it in the new language.

Bingo. When I found myself with some time to spare and a burning need to figure out how OO Perl worked, I created Roff as an OO exercise in about a day. I learned a lot about how to implment a simple OO Perl program, and although I left myself room to expand it into a more complicated group of classes, never did get around to it.

This follows on from writing a version of roff in C sometime in February 1993 after I broke my leg and was without a computer for six weeks. In a frenzy of 14-hour days, I wrote a really pretty cool version that even did micro-justification on the dot matrix printer I'd rented.

The nice thing about roff is that you can just keep on adding features to it -- there's no limit to when it's done.

Which can be a good thing or a bad thing. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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