Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tony" == Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tony> We're drifting further and further off topic here, but the trick to the Tony> Schwartzian Transform is the caching, not the maps. The maps are just a Tony> convenient construct that allows the whole thing to be written in one Tony> com

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:48:55AM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > >I'm not sure anyone has actually posited using map for performance, but > >in most cases that would indeed be a pretty stupid reason to use it. > See the Schwartzian Transform for an excellent example of > where you would use map fo

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:13:19PM -, Jeff wrote: It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it? That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial opin

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:13:19PM -, Jeff wrote: >>>It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl >>>as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it? >> That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial >> opinion in the Perl world. Howev

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Another time, a contractor working for me complained bitterly about > someone elses obtuse code and lack of comments - the other party > said 'Why don't you scroll up?', which he did - lo and behold, about > two pages of beautiful comment. Mmmm as he read the c

RE: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-02 Thread Jeff
> -Original Message- > From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:perrin@;elem.com] > Sent: 01 November 2002 18:43 > To: Tony Bowden > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ?? > > > Tony Bowden wrote: > > >It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a > subset