"As you figure out the necessary steps to solve the problem, you have almost written the script that will perform the task."

What you said was so true. It was sort like I just wrote down what was in mind with some natural language.

My teammates were all amazed. All the main issues were resolved last Friday, but there was some leftover. A guy phoned me this morning and asked whether I could join him at work. He had tons of files needed to be processed, and he wanted my Perl to do it.

Hey, he made the offer that I could not refuse. It was nice to work in office on Sunday, huh ;-?

He made the right call, and perl resolved his problem with no time.

It was sort like I just wrote down what was in mind with some natural language.

like in news:slrn8v8onk.b13.lutz@belenus.iks-jena.de (*):
"Perl is the successful try attempt to make a braindump directly executable."

(*) can't link to that article with google news for some reason

update: here it is: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/de.alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/89e5523b6e37b64a?dmode=source&hl=de (i hate the new news interface from google... why can't i search for the message id?)

s/try/attempt/

Google comes back with this.

The pertinant part is from the sig line...

Random Quote:
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Perl is the successful attempt to make a braindump directly executable.
- Lutz Donnerhacke in de.org.ccc

HTH,

Jack