McD's Cell

What's Here?

Hmm. Not much, actually.

There was a SpamAssassin-enabled POP3 proxy I wrote for Win32 users - it's a little outdated, contact me if you'd like a copy.

JAPH

perl -le 'for($c="McD"; $i<167990; $i++, $c++) {} print $c'

(Originally posted here. Shown here for a Unix shell; to try it at a DOS command line, change the single quotes to doubles, and the doubles to singles. :-)

Who Are Your Influences?

Hey, why should rock and roll stars get all the cool questions?

I can't help but admire the heck out of the following Perl folks:

Larry - No, seriously. A rare, brilliant, witty individual who's faith is clear to all and oppressive to none. Francis of Assisi is quoted as saying,

"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words."

For my money, Larry is a geek living that ideal. Also, Perl Rules. :-)

Erudil - not only for incredible stuff like the Camel Code (buy the TShirt), but for stuff like this. The monastary is a better place for his wisdom.

dws - This monk clearly knows whereof he speaks, espescially in terms of all things Windows. At the same time, he's patient and accurate with every question I've ever seen him answer. An unsung hero of the monastary, IMHO.

Dominus - An amazingly talented individual who gives so much back to the community. If you ever have the opportunity to hear him speak, do so. I still refer back to his Very Very Short Tutorial about Modules when breaking Perl things out into a module (which I don't do frequently enough, I'm sure).

Interesting Reading

Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21^st Century.
Ousterhout, J., IEEE Computer, March 1998.

Five Quick Hacks: Downloading Web Pages
Jon Orwant and Dan Gruhl, The Perl Journal, Issue #13 Vol. 4 No. 1 (Spring 1999)

Knuth on email
Note the convincing argument to drop the hyphen. I'm sold.

Contact Me

Check out my homenode on Perlmonks.

Send me mail: <McD@att.net>

Thanks

Bits of this site might look awfully familiar to other people who've writen websites. By way of thanks, let me just say:

"Newton said he saw farther because he stood on the shoulders of giants.
Computer programmers stand on each other's toes."

James Coggins, "Designing C++ Libraries"
The C++ Journal, 1(1):25-32, 1990