RE: The nature of work

% cat life.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
# life.pl
use Reality;  # from tilly

while ($alive && !$rich) {
  $money = work();
  $taxes = 30 + rand 20;
  $money -= $taxes;
  pay($taxes);
}
die "Empty handed.";
__END__

% perl -c life.pl
Warning: The value of $rich is always false.

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- Mushy

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RE: RE: The nature of work by mofo (Acolyte) on Sep 01, 2000 at 23:53 UTC
Good one!!!	[reply]
Re: RE: The nature of work by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Feb 06, 2001 at 21:42 UTC
I wish I only paid 50$ in taxes tops.	[reply]
Re^3: The nature of work by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 01, 2004 at 15:49 UTC
Nobody said the unit was USD! It could be something like "the average national income of a small developing country" (on second thought that is still not much -- and if it is negative you get a tax-refund). CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]