omg the whole foreward is about cooking "They say that it's easy to get trapped by a metaphor. But some metaphors are so magnificent that you don't mind getting trapped in them. Perhaps the cooking metaphor is one such, at least in this case. The only problem I have with it is a personal oneÑI feel a bit like Betty Crocker's mother. The work in question is so monumental that anything I could say here would be either redundant or irrelevant.

However, that never stopped me before.

Cooking is perhaps the humblest of the arts; but to me humility is a strength, not a weakness. Great artists have always had to serve their artistic mediumÑgreat cooks just do so literally. "

"Some modern artists would have you believe that so-called ephemeral art is a recent invention, but cooking has always been an ephemeral art. "

"Larry's wife, Gloria, a literary critic by trade, shocked us by reading through every single wordÑand actually liking most of them. Together with Sharon Hopkins, resident Perl Poetess, she helped us rein in our admittedly nearly insatiable tendency to produce pretty prose sentences that could only be charitably described as lying somewhere between the inscrutably complex and the hopelessly arcane, eventually rendering the meandering muddle into something legible even to those whose native tongues were neither PDP-11 assembler nor Medi¾val Spanish."

"Finally, I'd like to thank Johann Sebastian Bach, who was for me a boundless font of perspective, poise, and inspirationÑa therapy both mental and physical. I am certain that forevermore the Cookbook will evoke for me the sounds of BWV 849, now indelibly etched into the wetware of head and hand."


i really love these authors....they seem so sweet.

"Tom was a great co-author. Without him, this book would be nasty, brutish, and short. Finally, I have to thank Jenine. We'd been married a year when I accepted the offer to write, and we've barely seen each other since then. Nobody will savour the final full-stop in this sentence more than she."

omg: "My heart broke when William sadly told a friend, "My daddy works and worksÑall day and all night," and again when one of Raley's first two-word sentences was "Daddy work." Thank you all."

"
ALL CAPITALS        : THE ENCHANTRESS OF DZUR MOUNTAIN
no capitals         : the enchantress of dzur mountain
simple titlecase    : The Enchantress Of Dzur Mountain
better titlecase    : The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain

ALL CAPITALS        : MEETING THE ENCHANTRESS OF DZUR MOUNTAIN
no capitals         : meeting the enchantress of dzur mountain
simple titlecase    : Meeting The Enchantress Of Dzur Mountain
better titlecase    : Meeting the Enchantress of Dzur Mountain

ALL CAPITALS        : THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
no capitals         : the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring
simple titlecase    : The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
better titlecase    : The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"

"
if ($REMEMBER_THE_MAIN) {
    $perl_main_C = dequote << '    MAIN_INTERPRETER_LOOP';
        @@@ int
        @@@ runops( ) {
        @@@     SAVEI32(runlevel);
        @@@     runlevel++;
        @@@     while ( op = (*op->op_ppaddr)( ) ) ;
        @@@     TAINT_NOT;
        @@@     return 0;
        @@@ }
    MAIN_INTERPRETER_LOOP
    # add more code here if you want"
    
"
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

ÑJohn von Neumann (1951)"

reverse @array

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

ÑLarry Wall"

"
%father = ( 'Cain'      => 'Adam',
            'Abel'      => 'Adam',
            'Seth'      => 'Adam',
            'Enoch'     => 'Cain',
            'Irad'      => 'Enoch',
            'Mehujael'  => 'Irad',
            'Methusael' => 'Mehujael',
            'Lamech'    => 'Methusael',
            'Jabal'     => 'Lamech',
            'Jubal'     => 'Lamech',
            'Tubalcain' => 'Lamech',
            'Enos'      => 'Seth' );"


2412 pcb
   |    1371 rev
   |       |    705 maybe
   |       |      |      675 .
   |       |      |       20 yes
   |       |      |       10 not
   |       |    612 .
   |       |     54 web
   |    1016 pending
   |       |        1013 .
   |       |           3 mine
   |      19 fix
   |       6 .

i'll try not to quote so much anymore.

whoops: "[Art is] pattern informed by sensibility.

ÑSir Herbert Read, The Meaning of Art"

split on whitespace:

while (<>) {
    for $chunk (split) {
        # do something with $chunk
    }
}

different strokes:

use Text::Diff;

$diff = diff(*FH1, *FH2);
$diff = diff($FILENAME_1, $FILENAME_2, { STYLE => "Context" });


"Composing mortals with immortal fire.

ÑW. H. Auden, "Three Songs for St Cecilia's Da"


"
Alternative
.Punk
..Emo
..Folk Punk
.Goth
..Goth Rock
..Glam Goth
Country
.Old Time
.Bluegrass
.Big Hats
Rock
.80s
..Big Hair
..New Wave
.60s
..British
..American
"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

ÑJorge Luis Borges, The Theologians"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Fetching a child's status (thereby freeing it to drop from the system altogether) is rather grimly called reaping dead children."