RE: [TCLUG:7271] academic perl exercise...

["Schlough, Mark (NM IT)" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

You guys are awesome !!!

Thanks,

I knew it could be done.  I was talking about the merits of perl to some
folks at work, and the C-folks sprung this one on me.  
They love using C for text processing and database interaction.  ...pining
on and on about pointers and pointer arithmetic.  As if this was required to
move data fields around in database tables. :-/

Oh well.
 
Seeing that this is possible, especially in a non-trivial example, somehow
validates that Perl is a 'real' language.  _I_ already knew that, it's just
cool to demonstrate to folks using a criterion they can recognize.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John J. Trammell [SMTP:trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, July 30, 1999 7:16 AM
> To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Cc:	trammell@nitz.hep.umn.edu
> Subject:	RE: [TCLUG:7271] academic perl exercise...
> 
> Hello all:
> 
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ ./foo
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $x='#!/usr/bin/perl%c$x=%c%s%c;printf $x,10,39,$x,39,10;%c';printf
> $x,10,39,$x,39,10;
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ ./foo > foo.out
> [trammell@nitz ~]$ diff foo foo.out
> [trammell@nitz ~]$
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
> 
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