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A Simple perl-based cron.php Fetcher for Drupal

Submitted by drink on Wed, 2006-11-08 13:11
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I originally posted this on drupal.org here but I wrote it, so here it is.

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fortune perl 8254

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
"...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head."
— Larry Wall in <1992Aug6.221512.5963@netlabs.com>

fortune perl 8251

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
— Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution

fortune perl 8250

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it. :-)
— Larry Wall in <7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

fortune perl 8249

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity... :-)
— Larry Wall in <7886@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

fortune perl 8248

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)
— Larry Wall in <1991Jun24.231628.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>

fortune perl 8246

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
*** The previous line contains the naughty word "$&".
if /(ibm|apple|awk)/;      # :-)
— Larry Wall in the perl man page

fortune perl 8245

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors. :-)
— Larry Wall in <8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

fortune perl 8243

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now. Life is ridiculous.
— Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution

fortune perl 8244

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:38
The autodecrement is not magical.
— Larry Wall in the perl man page
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