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Sunday May 04, 2003
08:59 AM
OpenHuitre; and perl in books
So I'm working on compiling (?:blead|maint)perl on Open UNIX 8, a.k.a. UnixWare
7.1.2, a.k.a. OpenHuître among some French hackers. This is quite
important since all Linux users will be forced to move to SCO in the near
future ;-) Anyway, that platform sucks. It's distributed with perl 5.004 by
default. And no decent shell. And ithreads compilation doesn't work.
Meanwhile, I'm still reading the Cryptonomicon, and what did I found in the second volume ? a perl program. An obfuscated one. The typographs got it wrong, though : end-of-lines are misplaced, there are spurious whitespace (e.g. "= ~") and double quotes are replaced by double single quotes. Did the english edition got it right ?
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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Typeset errors and linebreaks (Score:2, Interesting)
No, but Neal Stephenson has a FAQ about the book on his website [well.com] that covers the typeset errors and the linebreaks.
Which I think is pretty damn cool
-- dug
Re:Typeset errors and linebreaks (Score:2)