I want to share with you a story of how my PERL (wups, should be "Perl") or even programming in general mentality comes into play in my daily life.

The other day, I was helping someone build some shelves. We decided to use the leftover screws from a different project. I was told to take the box of screws and to pick out the long black screws. Now, let's take a look at my thought process throughout this job:

use strict; # well, not really

my $screw;
my @box;
my @box_of_good_screws;

foreach $screw (@box) {
    if ($screw >= "1 in." && $screw =~ /black/) {

        push @box_of_good_screws, $screw;

    }
}

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This really happened. I actually started thinking this way at that exact moment. Pretty cool, huh?

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

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(ar0n; lay off the caps) RE: PERL Mentality
by ar0n (Priest) on Aug 06, 2000 at 00:39 UTC
    From 'man perlfaq1': 
    What's the difference between ""perl"" and ""Perl""?

One bit.  Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses "Perl" to 
+signify
the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it, i.e. the curr
+ent
interpreter.  Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can parse Perl."
+  You
may or may not choose to follow this usage.

[...]

But never write "PERL", because perl isn't really an acronym, aprocryp
+hal
folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.

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    I don't mean to be a smart-ass, but I noticed you used "PERL" in your other
    two other posts today as well.

    -- ar0n | Just Another Perl Joe

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[d/l]
      Wups! I guess your right. I never read that before. Although, doesn't "perl" (see I'm learning already) stand for "Practical Extraction and Report Language". I guess I got confused. Thanx for the correction.

      Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

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        For those that would like to think perl is somewhat sane, yes, to the rest of us its:

        Pathological Eclectic Rubbish Locator

        Which of course makes more sense :)

        Cheers,
        Gryn

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RE: PERL Mentality
by larsen (Parson) on Aug 07, 2000 at 19:14 UTC
    During my Computer Architectures course, I surprised myself thinking in RISC assembly ;)

    Just kidding, of course
    Larsen
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