v.Perl

Tinkered with this in other languages (*GASP* PYTHON!!) and decided to make a Perl form.

#!usr/bin/perl

while ($programming_knowledge > $life)
{
   $life = $life-1;
}
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Re: v.Perl by MrCromeDome (Deacon) on Jul 28, 2003 at 14:26 UTC
Interesting. . . ++ to you. FYI, it would be more idiomatic to write the above as: `$life -= 1 while $programming_knowledge > $life;` [download] Cheers! MrCromeDome	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: v.Perl by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 30, 2003 at 18:18 UTC
`--$life while $programming_knowledge > $life;` [download] Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: v.Perl by jmm (Initiate) on Jul 28, 2003 at 21:00 UTC
Surely you should change the - to a + (if your programming knowledge is sufficiently great, you probably need to get a life).	[reply]
Re: Re: v.Perl by yosefm (Friar) on Aug 03, 2003 at 20:40 UTC
I interpreted this in a diferent way: Messing with programming too much makes your life shorter... Example: today I lost half a day of my life trying to understand what's wrong with my use of Error.pm, only to find that I didn't `qw/:try/` :( But, maybe I don't qualify as an example, since `$my_programming_knowledge < $life`	[reply] [d/l] [select]