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What's this about laziness? Isn't that a pejorative way to describe luminaries of the Perl universe?
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2013-12-07 About me -- should anyone give a s{...}t. In my youth, I used to make SuperComputers, well, processors. Which were comprised of capacitors, many of them. Do note, this was back before the dawn of the now, common place transistor, and, the PC. Later, of course. I used transistors. Owned, and operated one of the first BBS's (3rd I think) on the west coast. Had fiber hauled up to my house, and used a "fido tosser" to permit BBS users to exchange email over the internet. From there, I became a hostmaster. Which then, largely consisted of being a DNS provider. Which, back then, meant compiling a list of inter-connected computers, by name, and exchanging them by Email. Yep. That's the way it was done, back then. I remain both today. Average ~160 domains, and ~12,000 hosts, and no I don't handle DNS that way today. ;) Perl experience: After my epiphany, regarding PHP. I stopped using Perl, as well, and began work on a new DNS resolver, using the C language -- assembler was my first language, so C was already a familiar language. After completion. I spent good deal of time testing, and improving it. I'm pleased to say, it's faster, safer, and smaller, than any other resolver available today. :)
Perl today.
Well. There you have it. I'm surprised you read this far. :) --Chris out... |