Perl headache

[dianec42]

Sigh.

The thought having occurred to me, I now can't help wondering how long before I use the phrase "or die trying" in a perl script.

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[anneb.livejournal.com]

...and why that HADN'T occured to me ever, I have no excuse or explanation.

[merde.livejournal.com]

i can't imagine why you haven't already.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I'm debating the optimal punctuation, and what to put in a variable called $trying if I go that route. So there.

(Plus I haven't actually coded anything of interest yet. A large part of me is still bristling in acute disbelief that I actually have a spec.)

[blipvert.livejournal.com]

It's funnier if you make "trying" a subroutine, e.g.:

sub trying { print "sorry, couldn't do whatever it was you wanted\n"; }

then later on you can write

sleep or die trying;
study or die trying;
do something or die trying;
goto hell or die trying;
get LAID or die trying;

There are Perl programmers, and there are people who are horrified at Perl programmers.

[sichling.livejournal.com]

scarily enough, I think I prefer Python to Perl - but I've not coded in Perl in quite some time & only have poked at them really

[siderea]

Learning Python is somewhere on my to-do list. What do you like about it?