Thanks man

That would be difficult - it's such a write-only language. TTFN - Kent

Hey! Less of the "old!" :mad: I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Next, you need an Elvis Parsley :wtf: «One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

Tim Deveaux wrote: Double, double toil and trouble; VB burn and sorting bubble... FTFY! "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

I wouldn't know until I own one. Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Mark_Wallace wrote: We'll have to sneakily ask a question that only the real Perl will know the answer to, then shoot the cloneboth of them. FTFY Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Luckily, the training was online, from home, with General Hospital playing on the other screen. I figured GH was appropriate, considering the main use of the language. We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube, VidMe and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc. and FB

convert perl scripts to .exe - Google Search[^]

Putting grandmothers everywhere out of the cheesy sweater business. When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

I just wrote my first voice generated PERL script: open open bracket no open bracket you stupid pile of tin am i meant to say ( ah yes so i am good now where was i yes open bracket damn no backspace backspace will you delete all start again open ( o do come on infile comma arg vector zero no you berk that's dollar sign upper A upper R upper G upper V open square bracket zero close square bracket o my god are you serious i have to leave at midnight close square bracket close bracket oh not again god i hate computers awe no i said awe not or really where's my goddamn keyboard die double quote no scratch that just die It's a cool enough script but for some reason it won't run. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Absolutely bloody brilliant! I laughed like a drain. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

I sort of got that from his last line. Just wanted to irritate him by stealing his soapbox. "(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I simply don't care anymore - I was employed, and I did what they wanted. If they want to throw it all in the crapper, that's their perogative. The voice of the experienced software developer. Once said (by me) to a younger developer who was commiserating that none of the stuff he's working on will ever be remembered by anyone: "Sorry to disappoint you Michelangelo, but we're not building cathedrals."

I can beat that easy!* * He didn't say that it has to compile... I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

NMo, I'd say that Perl programmers are crazy. and I've dabbled in nPerl, it's sometimes useful. But PhP suites my needs better. CQ de W5ALT Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

PCRE is a good option. It is based on the Perl regexe, although there are some minor differences under the hood (which I do not remember now). I wrote my own C++ template regex some years ago that gives me full control of behavior in my personal projects. I used other libraries like PCRE, for comparison, in my test bed, to test for speed and accuracy. That is why I know that there are some minor differences on what one considers valid and invalid syntax (implementation differences or programmers mind set - who knows?). As for Cs ability to process strings or any other data type - it is very efficient. I used to be able to look a C-code and translate it, in my head, directly to the equivalent assembly code. What you are talking about is the standard C libraries, which were designed to provide only the simple low level functionality that programmers require to develop more complex algorithms (how many ways are there to write a 'strcmp' function?). It was left to others to provide libraries that required more than a simple 'for' or while 'loop' in their functions. That being said, when I find my self doing contract work on old C-code, where I am not allowed to upgrade or use external libraries, I recreate some simple algorithms for parsing (hey its their money, so who am I to argue with a brick wall). Basically, I create equivalent functions for parsing sub-strings like the regex "\d*" or "[abd]" and wrap them in a function call - depending on what I am looking for. What little testing I have done has actually shown me that they were more efficient than using the MS implementation of regex (not a surprise). Conclusion: C is the most efficient language I have ever work with - there is a reason that all of the modern operating systems, I have worked with, were written in C. (I have not checked lately, so it is possible that C++ snuck in their some were). INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

C# on DECwindows... Yummm... No, wait, that's not what I meant.