Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 02:34 am


Chris Sonnack wrote:
> gswork@mailcity.com writes:
>
> > "a thousand monkeys typing random letters at 100 characters per minute
> > would very likely type the word "banana" within 6 weeks."
> >
> > what they didn't mention was that, intriguingly, it only takes few
> > monkeys feverishly hitting the keyboard and making generous but
> > unpredictable use of the shift key to immediately start producing
> > functioning perl code!
>
> There was an image floating around not too long ago that was a screen
> grab from THE MATRIX.  Had Cypher (?) sitting in front of that Matrix
> monitor saying to Neo, "Oh, that's not encryption...it's a new perl
> script that I'm working on..."

That kind of sums it up!

> (That said, I LOVE perl!!!)
> ((But I do find I tend to comment nearly every line.))

I suppose i ought to learn it some more before getting @con&fu%s/e/\d
by it!

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