John Cage's 4:33

Just a little Perl performance piece for you. Run & enjoy.

perl -e "sleep 4*60+33"
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Re: John Cage's 4:33 by YuckFoo (Abbot) on Feb 23, 2004 at 23:44 UTC
Not in the spirit of the piece. It was important (to Cage) that it be preformed in three movements. I think using map in void context is also called for: `map { sleep 1; } ( (1..30), (1..143), (1..100));` [download] YuckFoo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: John Cage's 4:33 by spartan (Pilgrim) on Feb 23, 2004 at 21:26 UTC
DUDE!!! That has got to be the most insteresting piece of reading I've come across in quite a while. I'd like to thank you for posting that. You have given me a bit of sunshine today (being stuck at a corporate desk, i rarely get any). thanks. Very funny Scotty... Now PLEASE beam down my PANTS!	[reply]