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qwiddityYou know what is a pain?
Translating Turkish code is a pain.
In fact, its a real pain in the neck!
The only opensource code for integration for a particular multi-tier program for shopping cart based payment systems is written in Turkish... so this is what I've been doing in order to implement some type of solution in Perl.
The problem here is that I don't speak Turkish.
So; I've had to look at someone else's badly written Turkish code, run it, break it, then run a remove/replace on whatever function it was that I broke into an approximate english equivalent of what it was that I'd broken, fix it, run it again... repeat ad nauseum.
So... now what I've wound up with is about 50kb of really badly written 1/2 Turkish Perl code with various b0rked things, and about 25% of which consists of mostly things along the lines of:
string $Gah_JubbaJubba('bleeblee') =~ 1 if {
what/(\in+|\the)hell?,(\does+|\this)do?/,/argh_screw_this; }
Anyway, thats just served to make me feel a little annoyed. Excuse me journal, I must face in this direction now.
Rani comes to Brisbane tonight... I am happy and frightened. (?)
Translating Turkish code is a pain.
In fact, its a real pain in the neck!
The only opensource code for integration for a particular multi-tier program for shopping cart based payment systems is written in Turkish... so this is what I've been doing in order to implement some type of solution in Perl.
The problem here is that I don't speak Turkish.
So; I've had to look at someone else's badly written Turkish code, run it, break it, then run a remove/replace on whatever function it was that I broke into an approximate english equivalent of what it was that I'd broken, fix it, run it again... repeat ad nauseum.
So... now what I've wound up with is about 50kb of really badly written 1/2 Turkish Perl code with various b0rked things, and about 25% of which consists of mostly things along the lines of:
string $Gah_JubbaJubba('bleeblee') =~ 1 if {
what/(\in+|\the)hell?,(\does+|\this)do?/,/argh_screw_this; }
Anyway, thats just served to make me feel a little annoyed. Excuse me journal, I must face in this direction now.
Rani comes to Brisbane tonight... I am happy and frightened. (?)
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Date: 2001-09-25 12:06 am (UTC)perl sucks a lot
Date: 2001-09-25 12:12 am (UTC)Well, thats good; Its sort of been midly amusing as well as frustrating. But I get to go home soon so its all much better at the moment... :)
However I've decided that if I ever meet Larry Wall I will probably slap him in the face and call him various names before I can make friends with him.
Perl doesn't suck...
Date: 2001-09-25 07:54 am (UTC)However, coding it is an art-form. :)
Re: Perl doesn't suck...
Date: 2001-09-25 08:47 am (UTC)Re: Perl doesn't suck...
Date: 2001-09-25 05:09 pm (UTC)That sounds like heaven... at the moment Perl is like anathema to me; but thats just because I'm slow and lazy. :)