On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Brandon Weaver
wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I was typing most of that from my Phone.
>
> I'm writing scripts for a wireless ISP, and we use several different types
> of antennas. They're monitored in several different ways,
> SSH/Telnet/SNMP/etc. Annoyingl
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Henry Maddocks wrote:
>
> On 28/12/2012, at 12:06 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Using a Struct generated class might give a bit more type safety since
>> all possible keys are laid out explicitly.
>
> Yes, this is a good compromise, but it always feels odd to me t
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Sean Alphonse wrote:
> Also, yes Ruby and Perl are very similar, being that their both
> scripting languages (though they do have differences).
But there similarities do already end. Perl does not have OO from the
start, Perl has a ton of special cases etc. and
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> I have noticed that this list has been taking on a rather nasty tone lately.
I wouldn't call it "nasty" - still the tone has degraded. There are a
few other changes I have observed.
- Discussions of advanced topics almost vanished these d
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Henry Maddocks wrote:
> PS. To answer your original question, I personally don't like hashed params
> because they hide the interface, but I occasionally use them because
> sometimes they 'feel' right. Looking back over my code it is usually when I
> have a lo
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:59 PM, 7stud -- wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote in post #1090246:
>>
>>
>> Why isn't that simple? Did you actually try it?
>>
>> require 'date'
>>
>> counts = Hash.new 0
>>
>> ARGF.each do |line|
>> line.chomp!
>> counts[Date.parse(line)] += 1
>> end
>>
>> counts.sort_
