use Perl

I only found a reference to it in perlfaq5. It points out there that DOS does handle forward slashes in place of backslashes (though you have to put quotes around the file name, or it thinks the slash is an option).

There is

perl -Mstrict -e "print $INC{'strict.pm'}"
C:/strawberry/perl/lib/strict.pm

but

perl -e "($f)=split/;/,$ENV{PATH};print $f"
C:\Windows\system32

Enjoyed reading it, as always.

I'm sorry, but how does one work for a year on a website but not get the login working right?

I was a bit interested in it, unlike all the previous "goodbye, cruel use Perl;" attempts, but clicking the button on the signup page I got a "can't fork page" error, then trying to login after a few tries it now says "This account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator for access.". Incredible! Maybe it's just me, but I find this to be a major turnoff...

"Java has the highest mean of comment lines per source lines at.. one comment line for three source code lines" and "Perl has the lowest mean with.. one comment line for nine source code lines"

And they say that Perl takes 10 times less code to do the same thing, so....

And the tests pass. But if I put my @a it fails. (If I put our @a, it passes.)

No test of the numbers returned? :)

Not claiming to be that knowledgeable, but what made me "understand" REST was the book "RESTful Web Services". That in turn cites the original thesis on REST. Some ideas that I took away were:

• keep a uniform interface, which is what the HTTP methods already give you;
• give every "resource" in your application a(t least one) URL;
• avoid keeping application state on the server, for scalability;
• hyperlinks send the application from state to state on the client side, in other words the current state's "representation" has links from the current state to whatever next states there are in the application (or to other applications, e.g. externally-linking URLs)

The last one is "REpresentational State Transfer".

I've recently worked a bit more on Perl bindings for OGRE. You might remember that I was working on this a couple years ago. I updated the bindings to minimally work with the Shoggoth (1.6) API (at least on Ubuntu). It still needs a lot of work.