Re: Learning Perl vs. c ++

2003-08-01 Thread David Winters
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Bruce Whealton, Jr. wrote: >Which one of these would be best equipped for SQL database work/designs? If Of these two, I think Perl is better-equipped. I amused myself a couple of times with trying basic Perlesque stuff in C++ and it's painful; Java is even worse. I didn'

Re: Q: on an "is pingable" script

2003-01-14 Thread David Winters
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Jenda Krynicky wrote: >From: David Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I'm trying to write a script that'll check to see if another machine >> is pingable, and perform one of two actions based on the result. I >> found the following isPingab

Q: on an "is pingable" script

2003-01-08 Thread David Winters
I'm trying to write a script that'll check to see if another machine is pingable, and perform one of two actions based on the result. I found the following isPingable() subroutine on a website (that is now not responding, so I couldn't contact its author) and thought I'd see how well it works.

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread David Winters
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: >On Jun 21, Nigel Peck said: > >>Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what >>people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other >>Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread David Winters
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, bob ackerman wrote: >On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:15 AM, drieux wrote: > >> >> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote: >> [..] >>> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so >>> move on (boring git). >> > > >> IT IS A SCARY PLACE