[Israel.pm] "The Cost of Newlines"

[Omer Zak]

Run the following from shell:
perl -e 'print "\n"x1000000;' > your_personal_newline_repository

Then you'll have a nice supply of newlines for your future Perl scripts.
                                      --- Omer
P.S.:  Credit is due Jara Cimrman for freeing the entire Free World from
shortage of newlines.

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:13 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> This is an edited conversation that took place on FreeNode's #perl. It 
> happened after someone asked how he can do something in one line. I am 
> "rindolf", but I think some of the messages by other people are funnier.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>      <rindolf>  sleeper: why are people obsessed with one-liners?
>      <rindolf>  It takes 3 lines - OMG what a disaster!
>        <Botje>  rindolf: newline prices went up again
>      <rindolf>  Botje: I buy my newlines in the black market
>  <dabreegster>  Botje: again? drat.
>              *  Botje reports rindolf to the newline police
>  <dabreegster>  Botje: I know about an... (underground) operation going on to
>                 pirate newlines.
>      <rindolf>  Botje: I bribed a few cops in the newline police, but nice              
>                 try.
>  <dabreegster>  Botje: Some crazy guys are trying to free newlines from 
>                 patents! They want to rid the market!
>              *  cursor gets called up to serve in the newline jury
>      <rindolf>  I think we need to start a campaign to lift all restrictions 
>                 off newlines.
>  <dabreegster>  rindolf: La Resistance lives on!\n
>        <Botje>  I already stockpiled millions of newlines
>  <dabreegster>  Botje: We can have the one-liners destroyed by sundown
>  <dabreegster>  Not destroyed, but... TURNED INTO TWO-LINERS! Mwuhahaha!
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> (This discussion on a slightly different topic had afterwards faded away, and 
> some time later returned, with a slightly different theme.)

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