(new) Theory and Practice of Programming

fun with AWK - (boxley) - (18) - April 1, 2004, 01:28:05 PM EST

No, *this* is fun with awk... - (admin) - (17) - April 1, 2004, 01:45:10 PM EST

Ha! Visual FoxPro. Chris is a masochist, isn't he. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - April 1, 2004, 02:01:10 PM EST

No, I was the masochist: - (admin) - April 1, 2004, 02:06:32 PM EST

yabut like bryce sez, what good is it? (actually slick work) -NT - (boxley) - (14) - April 1, 2004, 02:19:56 PM EST

Taught me how to use awk... ;-) -NT - (admin) - (13) - April 1, 2004, 02:23:41 PM EST

Also proved to me... I am not a programmer. - (folkert) - (12) - April 1, 2004, 03:35:30 PM EST

I sent him an email earlier today. - (admin) - (2) - April 1, 2004, 03:40:37 PM EST

Re: I sent him an email earlier today. - (JimWeirich) - (1) - April 4, 2004, 03:34:14 PM EDT

Noted, thanks. -NT - (admin) - April 4, 2004, 03:59:12 PM EDT

He comes around periodically -NT - (ChrisR) - (1) - April 1, 2004, 03:48:17 PM EST

I know... that was kinda my reasoning about both ends. -NT - (folkert) - April 1, 2004, 03:54:41 PM EST

Re: Also proved to me... I am not a programmer. - (JimWeirich) - (6) - April 4, 2004, 04:39:48 AM EDT

Suhweet! - (folkert) - (5) - April 4, 2004, 09:10:55 AM EDT

Anyone know howto extract a recursive from... - (folkert) - (4) - April 4, 2004, 09:19:02 PM EDT

Use Jim's latest web pages - (ChrisR) - (1) - April 4, 2004, 11:28:07 PM EDT

Re: Use Jim's latest web pages - (JimWeirich) - April 5, 2004, 01:39:52 AM EDT

If you still need the stuff for the wiki, here it is - (ChrisR) - (1) - April 12, 2004, 12:15:54 AM EDT

TANK YEW. -NT - (folkert) - April 12, 2004, 12:30:19 AM EDT

Why would you redirect errors to /dev/null in production? - (ben_tilly) - (5) - March 29, 2004, 04:14:48 PM EST

Its typical in cron jobs to redirect standard out and - (boxley) - (2) - March 29, 2004, 04:49:31 PM EST

Not in my cron jobs, it's not - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 05:41:21 PM EST

carry over from the olden days - (boxley) - March 29, 2004, 09:33:54 PM EST

Very much what Box has said. But, - (folkert) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 10:28:46 PM EST

when it fails to work redirect as needed - (boxley) - March 29, 2004, 11:25:23 PM EST

I done boo-bood - (broomberg) - (22) - March 28, 2004, 02:06:36 PM EST

The escape of the parenthesis - (ChrisR) - (18) - March 28, 2004, 04:44:21 PM EST

Oh, I KNOW that was wrong - (broomberg) - (16) - March 28, 2004, 05:21:35 PM EST

Perfect example of why people hate Perl -NT - (Arkadiy) - (15) - March 28, 2004, 07:15:04 PM EST

Then I've served my purpose - (broomberg) - (1) - March 28, 2004, 07:23:23 PM EST

That's when I do my best coding... - (ChrisR) - March 28, 2004, 08:42:42 PM EST

Perl is for use in rare moments of clarity. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - March 28, 2004, 10:48:21 PM EST

ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - March 29, 2004, 10:53:42 AM EST

And how would you prefer to write that? - (ben_tilly) - (10) - March 29, 2004, 11:05:25 AM EST

The only practical alternatives I've seen... - (ChrisR) - March 29, 2004, 11:34:57 AM EST

Thank you for being so condescending. - (Arkadiy) - (8) - March 29, 2004, 03:44:10 PM EST

Oh, grand. - (Arkadiy) - March 29, 2004, 03:46:11 PM EST

Look at the type of error for a second - (ben_tilly) - (6) - March 29, 2004, 04:28:27 PM EST

Only in Perl - (Arkadiy) - (5) - March 29, 2004, 04:51:19 PM EST

Lint is your friend - (ChrisR) - March 29, 2004, 04:56:16 PM EST

Not only in Perl - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 29, 2004, 05:37:08 PM EST

Thanks for examples -NT - (Arkadiy) - March 29, 2004, 05:45:49 PM EST

Style guide - (ChrisR) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 05:57:32 PM EST

Not that I know of - (ben_tilly) - March 29, 2004, 06:17:00 PM EST

I'd assume that Barry knows that much Perl - (ben_tilly) - March 29, 2004, 10:53:05 AM EST

You assigned the result of that substitution - (ben_tilly) - (2) - March 29, 2004, 10:45:24 AM EST

Gotcha - (broomberg) - (1) - March 31, 2004, 10:00:37 PM EST

About that NFA swamp - (ben_tilly) - March 31, 2004, 10:35:25 PM EST

Groovy, man. - (admin) - (9) - March 26, 2004, 06:12:13 PM EST

Well, fewer headaches anyway. - (FuManChu) - (1) - March 26, 2004, 06:48:22 PM EST

It doesn't need to be that way, though. - (admin) - March 26, 2004, 07:29:01 PM EST

Re: Groovy, man. - (deSitter) - (6) - March 26, 2004, 06:56:45 PM EST

Groovy was specifically designed - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:23:47 AM EDT

Re: Groovy was specifically designed - (admin) - (4) - March 28, 2004, 02:20:02 PM EST

1) Yes - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:24:01 AM EDT

I'll have to look at beanshell closer then - (admin) - March 28, 2004, 03:38:59 PM EST

I don't see where it compiles to classes - (admin) - (1) - March 28, 2004, 03:48:13 PM EST

I was thinking of this feature - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:24:37 AM EDT

HALP! Java question MAX_HEAPSIZE=817152000 - (boxley) - (23) - March 26, 2004, 11:29:48 AM EST

800M? - (Arkadiy) - (22) - March 26, 2004, 11:33:55 AM EST

hpux on 8400's not intel - (boxley) - (21) - March 26, 2004, 11:47:14 AM EST

Not like a stack - (jake123) - (2) - March 26, 2004, 12:20:15 PM EST

we are using bea as is the vendor - (boxley) - March 26, 2004, 12:59:45 PM EST

Yes, I can tell that you have just taken data structures... - (ben_tilly) - March 26, 2004, 02:17:31 PM EST

Java's heap is where all its objects live - (Arkadiy) - (5) - March 26, 2004, 01:33:31 PM EST

300M -NT - (boxley) - (4) - March 26, 2004, 01:34:30 PM EST

A link found - (Arkadiy) - (3) - March 26, 2004, 01:44:59 PM EST

thanks -NT - (boxley) - March 26, 2004, 09:39:26 PM EST

that link seemed to have nailed it - (boxley) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 03:47:14 PM EST

Google: Instant Expert-in-a-box -NT - (Arkadiy) - March 29, 2004, 04:02:37 PM EST

The heap is the opposite of the stack - (ben_tilly) - (11) - March 26, 2004, 02:10:58 PM EST

more an object repository in memory? -NT - (boxley) - (10) - March 26, 2004, 09:40:28 PM EST

Not quite - (ben_tilly) - (9) - March 26, 2004, 10:11:04 PM EST

the only problem is - (boxley) - (8) - March 26, 2004, 11:01:53 PM EST

I don't know why it would become borked - (ben_tilly) - (7) - March 28, 2004, 02:09:29 AM EST

All of your guesses are for me to follow up - (boxley) - (6) - March 28, 2004, 10:55:33 AM EST

One other thing to follow up on... - (ben_tilly) - (5) - March 29, 2004, 10:36:30 AM EST

That will happen if the heap size is > available memory - (admin) - (2) - March 29, 2004, 10:39:58 AM EST

Did you read the whole thread, carefully? - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 11:07:42 AM EST

Nope, but doesn't invalidate my comment. :-) - (admin) - March 29, 2004, 02:22:33 PM EST

playing with slight increments gives mucky mucks heartburn -NT - (boxley) - (1) - March 29, 2004, 11:51:48 AM EST

Stupid muckers - tell them "This is how it's done, so STFU." -NT - (CRConrad) - April 1, 2004, 02:49:50 PM EST

Perl code to generate a blank .gif file - (admin) - (13) - March 25, 2004, 07:23:08 PM EST

Oh "my" - niceness spoiled by language gouges -NT - (deSitter) - (6) - March 25, 2004, 07:51:14 PM EST

? -NT - (admin) - (5) - March 25, 2004, 08:02:44 PM EST

the "my" keyword is wonky-wonky-wonky - (deSitter) - (4) - March 25, 2004, 08:24:51 PM EST

No, local would NOT be just as good - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 25, 2004, 08:41:56 PM EST

Not tied to the word itself - (deSitter) - (2) - March 25, 2004, 09:22:42 PM EST

Well, it's obviously not to your taste - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 26, 2004, 01:06:28 AM EST

Re: Well, it's obviously not to your taste - (deSitter) - March 26, 2004, 01:24:06 AM EST

How about style nits instead? - (ben_tilly) - (5) - March 25, 2004, 08:10:53 PM EST

Re: How about style nits instead? - (admin) - (4) - March 25, 2004, 08:56:59 PM EST

Question - (ben_tilly) - (3) - March 25, 2004, 09:09:37 PM EST

can't get there from here - (cforde) - (2) - March 26, 2004, 03:42:00 AM EST

Whom God favors, he shall be allowed the half measure of Tab -NT - (deSitter) - March 26, 2004, 04:20:29 AM EST

Look at the root post... - (ben_tilly) - March 26, 2004, 01:58:31 PM EST

Ah, good. I'll have to look at Seaside again. - (admin) - (9) - March 25, 2004, 09:14:00 AM EST

Re: Ah, good. I'll have to look at Seaside again. - (deSitter) - March 25, 2004, 09:27:57 AM EST

Probably no worse than adding an expired session error - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:40 AM EDT

Badly written J2EE... - (admin) - (1) - March 25, 2004, 10:07:45 AM EST

Complete with the abysmal oracle specific sql I've been - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:51 AM EDT

Not too burdensome - (Avi Bryant) - (4) - March 25, 2004, 02:44:25 PM EST

That makes sense. - (admin) - March 25, 2004, 03:20:10 PM EST

Welcome aboard! - (ben_tilly) - March 25, 2004, 07:07:30 PM EST

Yeah, what Ben said. :-) - (Steve Lowe) - March 25, 2004, 07:27:09 PM EST

Greetings! (new thread) - (pwhysall) - March 26, 2004, 01:58:02 AM EST

Why functions and regexes - (admin) - March 24, 2004, 11:27:34 PM EST

Quick ant trick - (admin) - March 24, 2004, 01:39:06 PM EST

Story on the wonders of Zope at K5 - (Another Scott) - (7) - March 24, 2004, 12:35:58 AM EST

Thanks admin. -NT - (Another Scott) - (6) - March 24, 2004, 02:10:11 PM EST

Yep. We'll see if it generates any comments. - (admin) - (5) - March 24, 2004, 02:22:02 PM EST

Given your comments, perhaps we should rewrite? (new thread) - (FuManChu) - March 24, 2004, 07:04:36 PM EST

Nice reply - (deSitter) - (1) - March 24, 2004, 07:46:13 PM EST

I got him/her to elaborate a little. - (Another Scott) - March 24, 2004, 08:50:56 PM EST

Serious Flashback! I forgot your old handle... - (jb4) - (1) - March 25, 2004, 04:49:35 PM EST

Haven't fully decided yet. - (admin) - March 25, 2004, 05:14:35 PM EST

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