[geeks] perlish disgruntlement, java considered, sun hardware sought

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:03:52PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 1.  This isnt C, and I'm not in college; that was oh, almost 10 years
>     ago now.  
> 2.  Some of the things I do here, they dont care if its pretty, readable,
>     efficient, they just want $x results by "FIVE PM TODAY!".  In that
>     case, I throw stuff together [1], make it work, get the "atta boy" and
>     pat on the back, then go back *later* to optimize/tweak it. [2]

UNREFERENCED FOOTNOTE! DUMPING CORE!!!!

Okay.

[1] One thing right now is a mishmash of shell, Expect, and Perl.  Currently
    rewriting it along with documentation on how to use it, in case I get
    run over by a bus.

[2] This project (see [1]) started as a "hey, can you transfer these files
    from $x to $y and make a pretty pull-down menu index for them?" over a
    YEAR ago... Fast-forward 11 months, and now it has turned into a major
    customer-facing project.  Time to go tweak/optimize, I think. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX