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<p>Do you misuse apostrophe<font size="+1"
color="#ff0000"><b>'</b></font>s?
[http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif|Don't].</p>
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Haskell is delightfully ambiguous, especially by analogy.
<p>--[http://grenekatz.org/cgi-bin/MarkovBot?id=FoxtrotUniform&.submit=|Markov FoxtrotUniform]</p>
<p>So it isn't good. Thanks FU.</p>
<p>--[http://grenekatz.org/cgi-bin/MarkovBot?id=diotalevi&.submit=|Markov diotalevi]</p>
</blockquote>
<p><i>I became Perl Monks' 103rd Saint on June 4th, 2002.
</i></p>
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<font color="#ffffff">Nodes that I'm proud of</font>
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<li>[id://7568|Tricks with DBI] by [btrott]</li>
<li>[id://7598|Web Logs Using DBI] also by [btrott]</li>
<li>[id://34786|Why I like functional programming]
by [tilly]</li>
<li>[id://151249|Automatic Music with Perl] by [larsen]
</li>
<li>[id://106109|Any interesting philosophy of programming articles to recommend?]
by [tilly]</li>
<li>[id://158399|The Joy of Test] by [Ovid]</li>
<li>[id://42330|7 Stages of Regex Users] by [japhy]</li>
<li>[id://159189|Remember, before you consider, please, Please, PLEASE:]
by [kudra] (This should be required reading for all
new Friars)</li>
<li>[id://154071|Style geekcode] by [Juerd]</li>
<li>[id://70113|Re (tilly) 1: Discipline] by [tilly]</li>
<li>[id://26380|The path to mastery] by [tilly]</li>
<li>[id://94969|Inline POD vs. EOF POD] by [lachoy]</li>
<li>[id://76871|Choose the most powerful language] by
[tilly]</li>
<li>[id://158371|Re: Breaking output lines into N-element chunks]
by [merlyn] (My question has a higher rep than [merlyn]'s
answer, but this node is really the gem of the thread.)
</li>
<li>[TheDamian|Damian Conway] claims that I
[id://171423|"get it"] in a public forum!</li>
<li>[id://173273|Vampire Numbers] by [YuckFoo]</li>
<li>[id://173641|The Case for Learning Perl] by
[newrisedesigns]</li>
<li>[id://175986|Re: encryption (chi-squared test)] by
[gumby]</li>
<li>[id://29139|(tye)Re: A question of style] by [tye]:
just in case you thought that <code>&foo()</code> would
implicitly pass <code>@_</code> to <code>foo</code>, or
something.</li>
<li>[id://46769|Common Beginner Mistakes] by [chromatic]
</li>
<li>[id://70901] by [Dominus]. Holy shit.</li>
<li>[id://193649] by [adrianh]. Read it several times
until it makes sense. The coolest thing I've seen in a
long time.</li>
<li>[id://231431] by [Ovid]. A very good explication of
orthogonality in tiered systems.</li>
<li>[id://221498] by [Ovid]. Do you still think that
the coding-style Nazis are irrelevant pedants? This'll
learn ya.</li>
<li>[id://227805] by [BronzeWing]. Fractals are cool.
</li>
<li>[id://356122] by [dws]. Automated testing can
catch assumption-violations as well as more mundane
bugs.</li>
<li>[id://399054] by [Limbic~Region]. Still more crazy
math shit; I just can't get enough of the stuff.</li>
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<li>[id://182884|An image-processing approach to a
nearest-neighbour/clustering problem]</li>
<li>[id://171060|Variable naming, name length, and
scope]</li>
<li>[id://169802|Some disadvantages to on-the-fly data
structures]</li>
<li>[id://169608|Problem-solving techniques]</li>
<li>[id://168798|Holiday cheer?]</li>
<li>[id://165411|Improve your Perl skills by learning
other languages, and a digression into currying]</li>
<li>[id://164384|Downvotes as pædagogy?]</li>
<li>[id://155801|The Principle of Least Surprise]</li>
<li>[id://153412|Variable naming, part 2]</li>
<li>[id://136103|Optimizing]</li>
<li>[id://134531|Why Theory Doesn't Suck]</li>
<li>[id://122921|Orthogonality]</li>
<li>[id://103605|Yet another reason to use strict]</li>
<li>[id://234289|Generating arbitrary labelled trees]
</li>
<li>[id://380421]</li>
<li>[id://392085|Lexically scoped functions are your
friends]</li>
</ul>
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<p>A small (but growing) collection of obfuscations:
<ul>
<li>[id://188504]</li>
<li>[id://369727]</li>
</ul>
I tend to think that writing obfuscations with
<code>strict</code> and <code>warnings</code> is more
fun.</p>
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<h3>%/usr/games/fortune -o</h3>
<p>GOD is applied POWER
<ul><li>which is applied GOVERNMENT
<ul><li>which is applied POLITICS
<ul><li>which is applied ADVERTISING
<ul><li>which is applied SOCIOLOGY
<ul><li>which is applied PSYCHOLOGY
<ul><li>which is applied BIOLOGY
<ul><li>which is applied CHEMISTRY
<ul><li>which is applied PHYSICS
<ul><li>which is applied MATH
<ul><li>which is applied PHILOSOPHY
<ul><li>which is applied BULLSHIT</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
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<p>Cheers,<br>
<blockquote>Matt<br>
<i>Just another Perl-(and Scheme-, and C-, and
Haskell-)hacking, guitar-playing, sesquipedalian,
<tt>vim</tt>-using graphics geek in a
trenchcoat</i></blockquote></p>
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