It's been one of those days...

My girlfriend, Amanda, was at work until midnight, so I was left alone with my thoughts and even worse (according to her), Perl. I spent hours trying to debug an apparent infinite loop, until I realized that the loop wasn't actually infinite, just really close (runtime of 10 minutes, fan rpm up to 6000, perl was grabbing 97.7 percent of the CPU and Terminal was grabbing 14 percent - figure that one out). I believe that lack of sleep and coffee is to blame. Anyway, it's obvious that some optimization has to be done.

When Amanda got home and asked how my day went, I told her all about the code debugging, but she acted a little uninterested (understandably, since I have to remind her every other week or so that MS Windows, NOT Microsoft Office, is the OS running on her computer). So anyway, to make my story more interesting I told her I found $_[4].

She didn't get it.

Oh well, I though it was funny.

Tom "Turkey" Schaffer ( : >~

In reply to Getting Her Interest... Or Not... by tom10animal

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