93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
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Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#2Sometimes I forget how insane Perl was before `use strict;` became commonplace.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#3Posted 2019-04-01
i.e. a fun April 1st paper.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#4So... next we should try feeding random traffic noise through voice recognition and see what Perl makes of that? (SCNR)
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#5That's a fun read.
I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.
I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.
[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.
@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it. Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#6That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…
I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy
EDIT: verb tense changed
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#7That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fa…
I’m sorry the code you produced made you so unhappy EDIT: verb tense changed
Any particular reason for the insult? I don't recall saying anything bad to you.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#8This is obviously just a bit of fun, but looking at the output examples, I think the OCR used may be flawed in that it's heavily optimised to produce characters used in natural language (alpha & spaces) rather than to produce e.g. operators common in code. The number of "special characters" output is extremely small. This will bias it heavily toward producing identifiers, which will be valid in most common programming languages.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#9I wonder what the equivalent result would be for Raku (aka, the language formerly known as Perl 6).
By the way, the first Raku Conference is happening in a few weeks, Aug. 6–8 https://conf.raku.org
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
#10Can we talk about the original tweet some? How DO we let kids be kids in this age where all the other kids wanna do is be on YouTube and TikTok?