Re: [FWP] Quine, ontology, and Perl

[John Carter <john@netsys.co.za>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Sven Neuhaus wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 06:29:55AM +0000, John Carter wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> > 
> > >       perl -le'print "Just another Perl hacker,"'
> >                         123456789012345678901234
> > > Of course, minimizing character count is not the main goal of a JAPH.  :)
> > 
> > Contrarywise, anyone who can print "Just another Perl hacker" using
> > under 24 characters has instantly earned eternal perl wizardom!
> 
> Cheating is fun:
>           perl -e'die`nc a.tm 9000`' 
> 
> Gee, I'm famous now!

Umm, not yet. Cheating within certain pragmatic bounds is Fun, but this
seems to assume a program `nc` on the path and a file a.tm where nc
wherever expects it. Alas, no system I have worked on complies with these
rather stringent assumptions. Is this a macperlism or something?

What does 'nc' do and why do you expect a file a.tm to exist?

John Carter

Work Email : john@netsys.co.za Private email : cyent@mweb.co.za 
Yell Phone : 083-543-6915      Phone         : 27-12-348-4246

Death is nature's gentle way of saying, "Relax".


==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl?  Well, if you insist...
==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_
====   unsubscribe