Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-09 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:11, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:11:44 +0100 Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/9 Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk: people are getting a bit pentiumed up Well, I amd expecting a bit of

Perl Christmas Quiz 2009 Answers

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Jack
I thought I should (again) post some sample answers. The challenge of writing a Xmas quiz is always coming up with short, interesting questions that touch on interesting and potentially controversial answers. I spent the better part of a year coming up with the questions I did, and, to be

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009 Answers

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:20:54PM +, Chris Jack wrote: I think my answer to question 10 may cause controversy, but it is based on a careful reading of the sited webpage. 10) What is the highest value of X that is a currently available, stable production release of perl 5.X? Answer: 8

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-12-09 Thread Rallias UberNerd
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:43:19 -0600, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 Nov 2009, at 18:24, Chris Jack wrote: Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular, Bonus question: How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread with a Reply-to: to an existing one?

Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-12-09 Thread Rallias UberNerd
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:33:49 -0600, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:43:19PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Bonus question: How many people will be mildly irritated by starting a new thread with a Reply-to: to an existing one? Not as many as will be

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-12-09 Thread Rallias UberNerd
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:33:33 -0600, Paul Orrock pa...@digitalcraftsmen.net wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli * I hear Vespas are good :-) I want a jet powered hoverboard[0], because it has the power to work on water [1] :-) P. [0] -