RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
From: Jamie Honan > In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth > are words, addresses, values and computations. The big turtle > they are all standing on are bits, 0 and 1. > > Everyone should peek over the edge every so often to view > them. I wonder what they will look like on a quantum computer? "My god.. It's full of stars" (Dave, 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Jill. ___ Jill Rowling Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax:(02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
supposedly intelligent, who told you that ;) and I havent seen any proof
that the world isnt held up by four elephants standing on the back of a gian
turtle, not our world of course, but discworld might well be.
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From: John Wiltshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
From: Terry Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>James Wilkinson wrote:
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>> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jamie Honan generated:
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>> >In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth
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>> I believe they were elephants ;)
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>Blaspheme - Bloody pratchett nonsense! {:-).
It's always interesting being on a mailing list of supposedly intelligent
people arguing over whether the earth is held up by elephants or turtles.
John Wiltshire
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Re: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
John Wiltshire wrote:
> >> >In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth
> >>
> >> I believe they were elephants ;)
> >
> >Blaspheme - Bloody pratchett nonsense! {:-).
>
> It's always interesting being on a mailing list of supposedly intelligent
> people arguing over whether the earth is held up by elephants or turtles.
It might be Friday afternoon, but there is still two hours of work
time left. Get back to it!
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RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
> It's always interesting being on a mailing list of supposedly intelligent > people arguing over whether the earth is held up by elephants or turtles. It's actually both - four elephants on top of a giant turtle named the Great A'Tuin. This is important - get your facts straight. :P //umar (currently reading "Mort" :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
From: Terry Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>James Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jamie Honan generated:
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>> >In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth
>>
>> I believe they were elephants ;)
>
>Blaspheme - Bloody pratchett nonsense! {:-).
It's always interesting being on a mailing list of supposedly intelligent
people arguing over whether the earth is held up by elephants or turtles.
John Wiltshire
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Re: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
James Wilkinson wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jamie Honan generated:
>
> >In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth
>
> I believe they were elephants ;)
Blaspheme - Bloody pratchett nonsense! {:-).
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Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861
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Re: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jamie Honan generated: >In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth I believe they were elephants ;) -- jamesw "We're like sisters... with really different hair!" -- Cordelia Chase, Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 12:57:36PM +1000, Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jamie Honan wrote: [snip] > 0 and 1 are the same turtle? Wow. Quantum turtles. Fuzzy turtles? > It's true though - it's always invaluable to understand what's going on a > couple of steps underneath what you're doing. Perl to assembly sounds like > an extreme, but consider Windows 98 and DOS. Soon enough there will be Linux > users weaned on GUI applications who have no understanding of /etc - . and dumping ALL files into /etc base dir and then requesting that /etc made be writeable by users cause they want to write some 'temp" stuff into it as it has been happeing in WINNT (and they call it a business operating system, bah!). Don't we fear that all? jobst -- Fortune: No such file or directory. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly
> Jamie Honan wrote: > > In the end, the four turtles holding up the computer earth > are words, addresses, values and computations. The big turtle > they are all standing on are bits, 0 and 1. 0 and 1 are the same turtle? Wow. Quantum turtles. It's true though - it's always invaluable to understand what's going on a couple of steps underneath what you're doing. Perl to assembly sounds like an extreme, but consider Windows 98 and DOS. Soon enough there will be Linux users weaned on GUI applications who have no understanding of /etc - consider how much better off we are to understand the underbelly. However meagre that may be. :) (must read more about PAM, must read more about PAM...) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- Ye shall be cursed to fall in love so easily, and yet be so cold of heart as never to express it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
