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Jan. 16th, 2008 @ 08:26 am Blargh
Current Mood: sick
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The weather has taken a turn for the cold, and disease has come to smack me in the face. Monday and Tuesday were quite awful (exception: seeing Laura at Harvard Square on Monday evening was great, although somewhat marred by the aforementioned circumstances). Yesterday evening I got to bed at 8:30PM and slept through to my 7:30AM alarm, getting up only briefly for some water. I considered going to the doctor this morning (there's a doctor's office just down the road, conveniently enough), but I'm feeling a bit better now that I've been up and about for a bit, so I'll probably just strike out for work.
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Jan. 16th, 2008 @ 03:11 pm Perl: The Verdict
Current Mood: irritated
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So I've spent several weeks working with Perl. Read books, modified code, did some high-level hacking in a corporate environment.

Here's what's good about Perl:
  • Flexible syntax makes regular expressions a bit easier
  • Flexible syntax makes "golfing" your code (doing it in fewest keystrokes) easier
Here's what's bad about Perl:
  • Anything having to do with objects
  • Anything having to do with references
  • Anything to do with variable names (sigils, magic variables, etc.)
  • High levels of kludginess in the core features
You should learn Perl if any of the following apply:
  • You need it for a job
  • You're a Level 20 Unix Mage
  • You hate maintenance programmers with a burning fiery passion
  • You're a sado-masochist who is still working on convincing your firm to program entirely in INTERCAL
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Jan. 16th, 2008 @ 05:23 pm Python Counters and Accumulators
Current Mood: thoughtful
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Another post while [gigantic test script] runs (so I can continuer debugging SQL weirdness). Probably worth reading if and only if you're a Python programmer:

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Skilled
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