... Google better, please. They're building a system in Perl to manage data and benchmarks for symbolic computations, including theorem proving. They are not...
That kind of thinking is a shallow solution to the problem of a repeated section of work. What if the repeated code isn't the correct formulation of the...
... Woops! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theory-edge/message/9442 mentions a Turing Machine compiler written in Perl. Isn't this close enough? The point is...
... The repeated code can be in a sub like Jim said. The third time, you simply rework the *sub* so it works with all 3 uses. If you lollygag around and copy...
... Sounds like a call to delurk. I agree with Rob and Rob but more for the reason that having an immutable rule like "the second time you encounter...
... The whole reason we have rules is so you _think_ before you break them. -Terry Pratchett Personally, I find that it's sometimes useful to defer refactoring...
... five, actually. Count me in the 'for' list. By way of introduction, I'm an artist and software geek. I have worked with/for Rob on a number of occasions in...
... May as well make it six. I used to think the "never duplicate" rule was good and sometimes the second time I do something I refactor on the spot, but I've...
... <begin heavy sarcasm> Oh, I don't know ... NEVER use Windows isn't dogmatic. It's obvious. </end heavy sarcasm. But seriously, your point is well taken....
... If it's identical now but represents different things, doesn't that smell of badly chosen names for those things? If so, perhaps some things should be...
... the ... as ... But if you double-check my original posting to this thread, you will see that I did not call for "an immutable rule." I described instead ...
... I was reacting more to Terrence's shock and disbelief that copy-and-paste wasn't entirely evil. Didn't mean to misattribute. Chris -- Chris Winters ...
... I think that this applies more to languages like C or Java where runtime function generation isn't possible. In Perl, Javascript, and other functional-like...
... Not two full days after I call for the head of Rob Nagler for leading people into the heinous act of copying code, do I do it myself, albeit in Haskell: ...
... I believe Knuth said it best when he wrote "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." Functional programming allows...
... I've been in a a lot of programming language discussions over the years, and this particular point is what I call The Turing Tarpit. The answer is "Yes"....
... I don't know about that. I find this version more readable: twoExp n ... where m = n `quot` 2 x = (twoExp m) ** 2 In the Forth world, the most important...
... I read this paper, and its [6] reference. It looks to me like these guys are saying that for the same number of tests, partition testing is less work for...
... What does Perl encourage? More importantly, what does it discourage, particularly in the realm of functional programming. ... The problem with this...
... Random testing is very useful. And, data generators are useful when the data values are not that important. Most of the stuff I test seems too complex for...
... I can hammer in nails. I can hammer in screws. I can hammer boards in half. All I need is a hammer. I was actually going to respond to other comments...
... Right, ok then. I'm wasting my time and yours. -- Programming is the Magic Executable Fridge Poetry, | www.ScannedInAvian.com It is machines made of...
... I don't know if this is going to become a habit, but I'm with Rob on this one. Not because I think Haskell is useless or that FP is useless. (My posts on...
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... <snip> The difference here is that you admit that other languages may be superior choices for things but you don't have the tuits to to learn them. You...
If I haven't made this clear in the past, this list is about extreme programming with Perl. If you are offering jobs or looking for jobs, please post...
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