Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-30 Thread Philip Newton
David H. Adler wrote: > The canonical phrasing (mjd in his guise as RETARDO): YOU CAN'T JUST > MAKE SHIT UP AND EXPECT THE COMPUTER TO MAGICALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN! As can be easily retrieved by telling purl to "be mjd". Cheers, Philip (That version has s/MEAN!/MEAN, RETARDO!/ , which is the wa

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:45:23AM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > > > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) ^^ > > > > > > What does it do? > > > > It, er... parses Perl. Strictly speaking it doesn't do anything, due to not currently existing. >

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David H. Adler wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > > > I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better descrip

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > > I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description would be > > that it parses approximate Perl. > >

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:07:28 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > > > I said it would parse Perl approximately.

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:07:28 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > > I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description > > would be that it parses

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description would be > that it parses approximate Perl. > Thus making the phrase 'you can't make up any old shit and expect it to wo

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:45:23 +0100 (BST), Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > > > Would

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > > proposes the creation of a Pa

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:52:23AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > > proposes

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Cross
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) > > What does it do?

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > David H. Adler wrote: > > > What, no CiP rating??? > > > > Well, there wasn't any Perl code included. But it should be pretty > > straightforward to hack the algorithm together, or mig

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Appro

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) What does it do? .robin. -- Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Cross
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) > > You are an evil man. You know

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk > proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :) You are an evil man. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Wo

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Dave Cross
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:33:16 -0500, "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > David H. Adler wrote: > > > What, no CiP rating??? > > > > Well, there wasn't any Perl code included. But it should be pretty > > straightforward to

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > David H. Adler wrote: > > What, no CiP rating??? > > Well, there wasn't any Perl code included. But it should be pretty > straightforward to hack the algorithm together, or might as well hijack the > Convert::Base32 module for the p

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
David H. Adler wrote: > What, no CiP rating??? Well, there wasn't any Perl code included. But it should be pretty straightforward to hack the algorithm together, or might as well hijack the Convert::Base32 module for the purpose. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-27 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this > is the craziest thing i've seen this year > I wouldnt get too carried away after all its only march :) /J\

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-27 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > agreed, this is just f*cking crazy, sorry for the swearing, but this > is the craziest thing i've seen this year What, no CiP rating??? dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl

Re: Buffycode (was Re: "That book")

2001-03-27 Thread Dave Cross
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is > > to make it relate to buffy in some way :) > > That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work --