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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
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http://www.astray.com/
Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
Thursday May 15, 2003
10:46 AM
Purdy colours
While waiting for a test suite to run today, I messed around with clintp's Parrot BASIC compiler. I hadn't coded BASIC in a while, but it all came flooding back to me - the way you had to do "STEP -1" to step backwards, the NEXT. How retro it all is...
cls
FOR y = 30 TO 0 step -1
bigc = y
bigc = bigc * 0.1
bigc = bigc - 1.5
FOR x = 0 TO 75
c = x
c = c * 0.04
c = c - 2.0
bigz = 0.0
Z = 0.0
r = c
i = bigc
k = 0
FOR k = 1 TO 112
if (z*z + Z*Z > 10) THEN GOTO BREAKOUT
t = (z * z) - (bigz * bigz) + r
bigz = 2*z*bigz + i
z = t
next k
BREAKOUT:
c = k mod 16
color c, c
print " ";
next x
next y
end
Cute, huh? What do you mean "But what does it do, acme?"? It draws a pretty Mandelbrot image using ANSI colours of course!
I'm still in denial about slides...
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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