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johanvdb (1872)
Tuesday December 23, 2003
10:53 AM
Perl herds electric sheep
An article at O'Reilly talks about an upcoming presentation about a collaborative effort to breed electric sheep.
These electric sheep are bred using a screen-saver like application, just like SETI@home.
The electric sheep are fractal like images, but they do actually evolve from a rudimentary form of DNA.
So far, so good, but the real fun thing is that the server code is written in Perl!
On the electric sheep site, we can read the next comment:
"The server version 2.3 source code tarball contains 3900 lines of multi-threaded perl. The flame library, the expat XML parser, and the mjpegtools mpeg2 encoder must be installed separately."
WONDERFULL!
Johan
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for some value of wonderful (Score:2)
Are you sure? I think it cheats to make sure it won't run under Acme::Inline::PERL [cpan.org]:
# use strict; ??It seems to be nice clean code, but it won't be strict clean. It's procedural, all in package
main::, with HTML inlined within the code.It doesn't use
-Tor warnings, but there are bugs in the former, and people make reasonable arguments about why the latter is not always the best plan in some code.I agree that it's wonderful that they are using perl, but it's not wonderful perl. Good, bu
Re:for some value of wonderful (Score:1)
So, let me rephrase the wonderfull thing a bit and keep at the 'nice' level.
Makes me wonder, though
Johan
Re:for some value of wonderful (Score:2)