Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <080620141120457800%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402331561 26042 166.84.1.5 (9 Jun 2014 16:32:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22625 comp.sys.mac.system:60604 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote, quoting me on perl: > > > I'm not even sure how I could add 50 lines to that. Since you want to dwell on this, I'll point out that byte count wise you're pretty damn close to 794. > > Add input validation, error handling, and make it > > callable from the command line, ala curl. I inadvertantly omitted formatting to make it easily readable. > So you say, but I'm not seeing the code. I showed you mine. > Now you show me yours. Show me where I said it was mine. > Otherwise, I have to think you're just making up stuff. You may, of course, think what ever you'd like. Even if it makes you look like an idiot. I don't care. > I want to see you do what you claim with 794 bytes in 56 lines. Then spend US$10 for (a month's) access to Panix, and look here... /usr/local/contrib/bin/article ...and get educated. Here's a bonus example of how useful, in the hands of a decent software engineer, perl can be - http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/03/hdmi-audio-prevents-screen-saver/ Heh. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number