Re: I couldn't resist

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Re^2: I couldn't resist by brig (Scribe) on Oct 20, 2006 at 20:03 UTC
`There once was a man from Nantucket, who got his bicycle stuck in a bucket. a passerby exclaimed "Wow!", and inquired as to how, He happened to get stuck in a bucket.` [download] I came up with that trying to remember the original. I've heard one about a "lady from China" but I'm not going to repeat it ;) `C is a language quite dreary, 500 lines for a query. Not written with ease, It's Like a disease, But Perl is a dream with a query.` [download] Not so good, but OK. I love C actually, but only because it is legible assembler. I used to use it for text processing - after I spent weeks writing a string processing library (yes I knew the libraries but are you kidding?). A guy I knew back in 1994 introduced me to Perl and even loaned me an O'Reily book on 4.* The syntax was unfamiliar to me at that time and was simply overwhelming. As I learned Unix and came back to Perl the beauty really struck me. Peace --Brig	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: I couldn't resist
by brig (Scribe) on Oct 20, 2006 at 20:03 UTC

There once was a man from Nantucket,
who got his bicycle stuck in a bucket.
a passerby exclaimed "Wow!",
and inquired as to how,
He happened to get stuck in a bucket.
[download]

I came up with that trying to remember the original. I've heard one about a "lady from China" but I'm not going to repeat it ;)

C is a language quite dreary,
500 lines for a query.
Not written with ease,
It's Like a disease,
But Perl is a dream with a query.
[download]

Not so good, but OK.

I love C actually, but only because it is legible assembler. I used to use it for text processing - after I spent weeks writing a string processing library (yes I knew the libraries but are you kidding?). A guy I knew back in 1994 introduced me to Perl and even loaned me an O'Reily book on 4.* The syntax was unfamiliar to me at that time and was simply overwhelming. As I learned Unix and came back to Perl the beauty really struck me.

Peace
--Brig

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