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Uri said:ASU> Just for laughs:
ASU> http://www.unc.edu/~husted/Work/PerlReference.htm#anchor8
this page is mind boggling. if someone can find an email address, feel
free to forward my critique.
Ala Qumsieh said:Uri said:ASU> Just for laughs:
ASU> http://www.unc.edu/~husted/Work/PerlReference.htm#anchor8
[snip valid critique]
this page is mind boggling. if someone can find an email address, feel
free to forward my critique.
I'm totally surprised you actually went through the whole page! I just
couldn't go on after the first few paragraphs. Things like this should
be illegal!
Uri Guttman said:Lindsay Husted, presently an undergraduate at the University of
North Carolina and an NSF appointee, built this site.
the last modified time is:
06/16/04 15:20:44
this page is mind boggling. if someone can find an email address, feel
free to forward my critique.
What I find fascinating is how the author combines incompetence with
the tone of authority. The young woman ("Lindsay Husted, presently an
undergraduate...") obviously writes about things she doesn't understand.
But no sign of insecurity enters the writing even at its most nonsensical.
At some point, incompetence impairs a person's ability to perceive it.
As someone who has been programming in perl for several years, I found
the site useful.
Uri Guttman said:ASU> Just for laughs:
ASU> http://www.unc.edu/~husted/Work/PerlReference.htm#anchor8
; - The semicolon is the part of Perl language that terminates a
statement. A perl statement is an expression or series of
expressions that will not be executed without the semicolon.
huh??? perl -e 'print "the author is a doofus\n"'
don't see no ; there!
this page is mind boggling.
Thanks for posting the link Sinan, it was a real hoot!
A. Sinan Unur said:
As someone who has been programming in perl for several years, I found
the site useful. It was simple and well organized and I picked up
several new tips to add to my "arsenal". Yeah, it may not be 100%
accurate, but perl is about getting the job done, not about splitting
hairs.
Next time you insult someone's work, why dont you post a link of your
own tutorial? Don't have one, I didnt think so.
As someone who has been programming in perl for several years, I found
the site useful. It was simple and well organized and I picked up
several new tips to add to my "arsenal". Yeah, it may not be 100%
accurate, but perl is about getting the job done, not about splitting
hairs.
Uri Guttman said:this page is mind boggling. if someone can find an email address, feel
free to forward my critique.
A. Sinan Unur said:
Since the tutorial has been critiqued widely, perhaps some of her code
too...
#Generate a random number
print "Enter a seed number: ";
$seed = <STDIN>;
chomp $seed;
srand($seed ^ time);
#Set up a list of consonants and vowels
@consonants= split(/ */, "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz");
@vowels= split (/ */, "\@310u");
#Loop through the generation of a password
for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i +=1) {
print $consonants[int(rand(21))],
$vowels[int(rand(5))];
}
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