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December 20, 2009

Do or do not

Tags: , — inky @ 11:15 pm

We hired a new junior dev at work recently, which got me thinking about what pearls of wisdom* I have to impart to new programmers (not that anyone is asking, but maybe I can slip them into fortune cookies or something).
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March 25, 2009

The ultimate perl program

Tags: , — inky @ 10:56 pm

The other day somebody asked if it’s possible to write a non-trivial perl program that uses no alphabetical characters whatsoever. People make jokes about this but I can’t find any actual treatment of the subject, so here’s a brief discussion.

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March 4, 2009

T3 Hacking

Tags: , , — inky @ 11:49 pm

Somebody requested help with something a little fancy with actors in TADS 3 — to be able to queue up orders to NPCs then have them all execute at once — and it turned out to be a little more involved than I was expecting, so I thought I’d put up the code.

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