Archive for March, 2004

What I don’t like about Perl

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

Lack of function prototypes/signatures. OK, actually I just learned to you can do something like “function blah($, $, $)”. But most people don’t. And even then people can (and do) “shift(@_)” anywhere they want within the body of the function. It makes it horribly difficult to figure out how many parameters are needed and what […]

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More on Cell Phones

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004

I got my Treo 600 on Monday. It is a generic unlocked GSM model. But it doesn’t like my (very old) SIM (boo!). So I’m in a little bit more of a rush to get a new account (with a carrier with better data plans), and get a new SIM, and port my number over. […]

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