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module and are unhappy with the ORM, feel free to change it.
So far L<Class::DBI> is working for my needs.
=head1 FOOTNOTES
=over 4
=item fortune
unix application in 'games' (FreeBSD) type 'man fortune' from the command line
=item copyright infringement
L<http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-copyright-trademark-infringement-to-operate--72508.html>
=item wikiquote
interesting reading, wikiquote fair use doc: L<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights>
=back
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sub create_db_tables_sqlite {
my $db = QDBI->get_current_db_path;
#XXX is there really no way to do this with the existing
# connection?!(class dbi)
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:SQLite:dbname='.$db, '', '')
|| croak "$db cannot be accessed $! $DBI::errstr";
#-- sqlite does not have a varchar datatype: VARCHAR(255)
#-- A column declared INTEGER PRIMARY KEY will autoincrement.
eval {
$dbh->do('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS quote;') or croak $dbh->errstr;
$dbh->do('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS quote (
quot_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
attr_id INTEGER,
quote TEXT,
source TEXT,
rating REAL
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=head4 Data Related Parameters
=over 4
=item file or directory - one or the other required (not both)
if file, must be in our defined format, full path is needed.
if directory, full path is needed, can supply a basic glob type filter.
example:
{ file => '/home/me/data/simpsons_quotes.csv' }
{ dir => '/home/me/data/*.csv' }
=item file_format - required
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solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax,
unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the
things I like about it.
-- Tim Peters, 16 Sep 1993
One of the things that makes it interesting, is exactly how much Guido has
managed to exploit that *one* implementation trick of 'namespaces'.
-- Steven D. Majewski, 17 Sep 1993
Anyone familiar with Modula-3 should appreciate the difference between a
layered approach, with generic Rd/Wr types, and the Python 'C with foam
padding' approach.
-- John Redford, 24 Nov 1993
People simply will not agree on what should and shouldn't be "an error", and
once exception-handling mechanisms are introduced to give people a choice, they
will far less agree on what to do with them.
-- Tim Peters, 17 Dec 1993
Note that because of its semantics, 'del' *can't* be a function: "del a"
deletes 'a' from the current namespace. A function can't delete something from
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what each object's semantics were? Do you really want to ask if my abstract
syntax tree is less then your HTTP connection object?
-- Jeremy Hylton, in a discussion of rich comparisons, 29 Apr 1998
Two things I learned for sure during a particularly intense acid trip in my own
lost youth: (1) everything is a trivial special case of something else; and,
(2) death is a bunch of blue spheres.
-- Tim Peters, 1 May 1998
Well, they will be: "<" will mean what everyone thinks it means when applied to
builtin types, and will mean whatever __lt__ makes it mean otherwise, except
when __lt__ isn't defined but __cmp__ is in which case it will mean whatever
__cmp__ makes it mean, except when neither __lt__ or __cmp__ are defined in
which case it's still unsettled. I think. Or isn't that what you meant by
"clearly defined"?
-- Tim Peters, 6 May 1998
You write a great program, regardless of language, by redoing it over & over &
over & over, until your fingers bleed and your soul is drained. But if you tell
newbies *that*, they might decide to go off and do something sensible, like
bomb defusing<wink>.
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eventually decided there was no future in investing time in baffling
discussions that usually ended with "oh, never mind -- turns out it's a bug"
<0.9 wink>.
-- Vladimir Marangozov and Tim Peters, 23 Jun 1998
Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the *whole* snake?
-- Mark Jackson, 26 Jun 1998
The problem I have with "SETL sets" in Python is the same I have with every
other language's "killer core" in Python: SETL is much more than just "a set
type", Eiffel is much more than just fancy pre- and post- conditions, Perl's
approach to regexps is much more than just its isolated regexp syntax, Scheme
is much more than just first-class functions & lexical closures, and so on.
Good languages aren't random collections of interchangeable features: they have
a philosophy and internal coherence that's never profitably confused with their
surface features.
-- Tim Peters, 10 Jul 1998
"Since I'm so close to the pickle module, I just look at the pickles
directly, as I'm pretty good at reading pickles."
"As you all can imagine, this trick goes over really well at parties."
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acid-washed jeans and your Ernest Hemingway and your object-oriented languages
and your fax machines and your hula hoops and your zoot suits and your strange
slang phrases like "That's so bogus" or "What a shocking bad hat" and those
atonal composers like Arnold Schoenberg and Milton Babbit that you kids seem to
like these days and your cubist painters and your Ally McBeal and that guy in
Titanic and your TCP/IP protocol and your heads filled with all that Cartesian
dualism these days and ... well, I just don't get you kids. <shakes head
ruefully again>
-- A.M. Kuchling, 1 Oct 1998
E.g., at the REBOL prompt I typed
send tim@email.msn.com "Did this work?"
and in response it dialed my modem, connected to my ISP, and then REBOL
crashed after provoking an invalid page fault in kernel32.dll. Then my
connection broke, and the modem dialed and connected again. Then it just sat
there until it timed out.
now-*that's*-user-friendly<wink>-ly y'rs
-- Tim Peters, 24 Sep 1998
I've reinvented the idea of variables and types as in a programming language,
something I do on every project.
-- Greg Ward, September 1998
"The event/tree dualism reminds me why I always wanted to be able to do
pattern matching on trees."
"'Honey, what is this guy doing up there?' 'Oh, I suppose it's Christian,
trying to match some patterns.' "
-- Christian Tismer and Dirk Heise, 12 Oct 1998
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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-- Mike Fletcher, 25 Dec 1998
"Can we kill this thread? The only thing it does as far as I'm concerned is
increase the posting statistics. :-)"
"don't-open-cans-of-worms-unless-you're-looking-for-a-new-diet-ly y'rs"
-- Guido van Rossum and Tim Peters, 6 Jan 1999
Hey, that was the first truly portable laptop! Of course I'm nostalgic.
Came with a mighty 24Kb RAM standard, & I popped the extra $80 to max it out at
32Kb. Much of Cray's register assigner was developed on that beast: unlike the
prototype Crays of the time, the M100 was always available and never crashed.
Even better, I could interrupt it any time, poke around, and resume right where
it left off <wink>.
m100-basic-reminded-me-a-lot-of-python-except-that-it-sucked-ly y'rs
-- Tim Peters remembering the Model 100, 10 Jan 1999
"Heh -- all it really broke so far was my resistance to installing Tk. I
suppose wizardry is inevitable after one installs something, though <wink>."
"Spoken like a truly obsessive-compulsive wizard! It-takes-one-to-know
-one..."
-- Tim Peters and Guido van Rossum, 6 Jan 1999
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There are useful diagrams in UML, (eg, the state and transition diagrams).
Unfortunately, the one most tools use to generate code (and draw from reverse
engineering) has everything to do with language structure, and nothing to do
with what actually happens at runtime. To put it bluntly: people spend most of
their time designing the wrong thing. Worse, they get it wrong, but it's carved
in stone now; so the final system is either needlessly complex and marginally
functional, or bears no resemblance to the "design".
-- Gordon McMillan, 15 Dec 1999
The secret to good performance is to prototype and prototype, then code the
bottlenecks in a faster language. The secret to large systems is to prototype
and prototype, until you've got clean separation of the system into managable
pieces, then code in whatever language most suits the need of each piece.
-- Gordon McMillan, 15 Dec 1999
When Jim [Fulton] says "tricky" it means your brain could explode.
-- Michel Pelletier, 15 Dec 1999
You have start-tags, attributes, end-tags and character data. We have all seen
"XML applications" and "XML parsers" which handle this gang- of-four concepts.
... Now we can peer over the parapet and shout "your parser smells of
elderberries" or "I wave my mixed content at your ankles", as long as we like
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-- Jeff Bauer, 21 Apr 2000
Of course, this brought me face to face once again with Python's _pons
asinorum_, the significance of whitespace.
-- Eric S. Raymond, in the _Linux Journal_'s Python supplement
Surprisingly enough, Python has taught me more about Lisp than Lisp ever did
;-).
-- Glyph Lefkowitz, 3 May 2000
How about we notate the hungarian notation with the type of hungarian notation,
you know, hungarian meta notation: HWND
aWin32ApiHandleDefinedInWindowsDotH_hwndWindowHandle;
-- Warren Postma, 4 May 2000
Note that Python's licence is in fact the MIT X11 licence, with MIT filed off
and CNRI written in its place in crayon.
-- A.M. Kuchling, 5 May 2000
Once you've read and understood _The Art of the Metaobject Protocol_ you are
one quarter of the way to provisional wizard status. (The other three-fourths
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Python 2.0 beta 1 is now available from BeOpen PythonLabs. There is a long list
of new features since Python 1.6, released earlier today. We don't plan on any
new releases in the next 24 hours.
-- Jeremy Hylton, in the 2.0b1 announcement, 5 Sep 2000
Fortunately, you've left that madness behind, and entered the clean, happy, and
safe Python world of transvestite lumberjacks and singing Vikings.
-- Quinn Dunkan, 17 Sep 2000
Regular expressions are among my most valued tools, along with goto, eval,
multiple inheritance, preemptive multithreading, floating point, run-time type
identification, a big knife, a bottle of bleach, and 120VAC electricity. All of
these things suck sometimes.
-- Kragen Sitaker, 27 Sep 2000
IIRC, he didn't much care for regexps before, but actually writing a regexp
engine drives most people who do it to intense hatred.
Just more of the magic of Python! Transmuting a few peoples' intense agony
into the subject of others' idle amusement <wink>.
-- Tim Peters, 27 Sep 2000
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-- Paul Prescod, 11 Apr 2001
That is one of the first goals. Also, we want to handle a C++ SAX stream with
Python, and vice versa (feed a Python SAX stream into Xalan). Bi-SAXuality, in
a sense. :)
-- Jürgen Hermann, 11 Apr 2001
As you seem totally unwilling or unable to understand that _Weltanschauung_ to
any extent, I don't see how you could bring Python any constructive enhancement
(except perhaps by some random mechanism akin to monkeys banging away on
typewriters until 'Hamlet' comes out, I guess).
-- Alex Martelli, 17 Apr 2001
"Are we more likely to add different concrete subclasses of Consumable in
the future, or different concrete subclasses of Consumer? I suspect the former
is more likely."
"With genetic engineering being the latest growth industry, I'm not sure
that's true. Although I expect that any new models of cow, etc. will have a
backwards compatible food-consumption protocol."
-- Alex Martelli and Greg Ewing, 19 Apr 2001
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You didn't say what you want to accomplish. If the idea of "provably correct"
programs appeals to you, Eiffel will give you more help than any other
practical language I know of. But since your post didn't lay out your
assumptions, your goals, or how you view language characteristics as fitting in
with either, you're not a *natural* candidate for embracing Design by Contract
<0.6 wink>.
-- Tim Peters, 3 Jun 2001
The static people talk about rigorously enforced interfaces, correctness
proofs, contracts, etc. The dynamic people talk about rigorously enforced
testing and say that types only catch a small portion of possible errors. The
static people retort that they don't trust tests to cover everything or not
have bugs and why write tests for stuff the compiler should test for you, so
you shouldn't rely on *only* tests, and besides static types don't catch a
small portion, but a large portion of errors. The dynamic people say no program
or test is perfect and static typing is not worth the cost in language
complexity and design difficulty for the gain in eliminating a few tests that
would have been easy to write anyway, since static types catch a small portion
of errors, not a large portion. The static people say static types don't add
that much language complexity, and it's not design "difficulty" but an
essential part of the process, and they catch a large portion, not a small
portion. The dynamic people say they add enormous complexity, and they catch a
small portion, and point out that the static people have bad breath. The static
people assert that the dynamic people must be too stupid to cope with a real
language and rigorous requirements, and are ugly besides.
This is when both sides start throwing rocks.
-- Quinn Dunkan, 13 Jul 2001
I am becoming convinced that Unicode is a multi-national plot to take over the
minds of our most gifted (and/or most obsessive) programmers, in pursuit of an
elusive, unresolvable, and ultimately, undefinable goal.
-- Ken Manheimer, 19 Jul 2001
Unicode is the first technology I have to deal with which makes me hope I die
before I really really *really* need to understand it fully.
-- David Ascher, 19 Jul 2001
Moore's law is slowly making type declarations irrelevant...
-- Paul Prescod, 29 Jul 2001
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time
on when you realize it's pointless.
-- Bram Cohen, 20 Sep 2001
Generators and iterators are among the most loving features ever introduced.
They will give and give, without ever asking anything from you save the
privilege of gracing your code, waiting with eager anticipation for you to
resume them at your pleasure, or even to discard them if you tire of their
charms. In fact, they're almost pathologically yielding.
-- Tim Peters, 18 Oct 2001
IMO a bunch of the frustration I sometimes feel with Python comes from its
originally being intended as a "glue" language. It's too good for that, and
finds itself used as a work horse or even a race horse. Neither type of horse
belongs in the glue factory ;-).
-- Paul Rubin, 30 Oct 2001
"Which inevitably has the followup rhyme 'There was a young man from
Verdun'."
"But somehow no one ever seems to be able to remember what it was about the
man from Abdero."
-- Simon Callan and Gareth McCaughan, 04 Nov 2001, after someone
quoted the limerick "There was a young man from Wooloomooloo /
Whose limericks always finished on line two."
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their (working) life repeatedly flashed before their eyes, but in slightly
different colours, over a longer period of time.
-- Paul Boddie, 29 Aug 2006
I am the very model of a modern major database,
For gigabytes of information gathered out in userspace.
For banking applications to a website crackers will deface,
You access me from console or spiffy user interface.
My multi-threaded architecture offers you concurrency,
And loads of RAM for caching things reduces query latency.
The data is correctly typed, a fact that I will guarantee,
Each datum has a data type, it's specified explicitly.
-- Tim Chase, 12 Sep 2006
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concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax,
unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But
that's one of the things I like about it.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 16 Sep 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q17'>One of the things that makes it
interesting, is exactly how much Guido has managed to exploit that
<em>one</em> implementation trick of 'namespaces'.</p>
<p class='source'>Steven D. Majewski, 17 Sep 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q18'>Anyone familiar with Modula-3 should
appreciate the difference between a layered approach, with generic
Rd/Wr types, and the Python 'C with foam padding' approach.</p>
<p class='source'>John Redford, 24 Nov 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q19'>People simply will not agree on what
should and shouldn't be "an error", and once exception-handling
mechanisms are introduced to give people a choice, they will far
less agree on what to do with them.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 17 Dec 1993</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q20'>Note that because of its semantics,
'del' <em>can't</em> be a function: "del a" deletes 'a' from the
current namespace. A function can't delete something from the
calling namespace (except when written by Steve Majewski :-).</p>
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time.</p>
<p class='source'>Paul Boddie, 29 Aug 2006</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q320'>I am the very model of a modern
major database,
For gigabytes of information gathered out in userspace.
For banking applications to a website crackers will deface,
You access me from console or spiffy user interface.
My multi-threaded architecture offers you
concurrency, And loads of RAM for caching things reduces query latency.<br />
The data is correctly typed, a fact that I will guarantee,<br />
Each datum has a data type, it's specified explicitly.</p>
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<p class='quotation' id='q66'>Two things I learned for sure during
a particularly intense acid trip in my own lost youth: (1)
everything is a trivial special case of something else; and, (2)
death is a bunch of blue spheres.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 1 May 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q67'>Well, they will be: "<" will mean
what everyone thinks it means when applied to builtin types, and
will mean whatever __lt__ makes it mean otherwise, except when
__lt__ isn't defined but __cmp__ is in which case it will mean
whatever __cmp__ makes it mean, except when neither __lt__ or
__cmp__ are defined in which case it's still unsettled. I think. Or
isn't that what you meant by "clearly defined"?</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 6 May 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q68'>You write a great program, regardless
of language, by redoing it over & over & over & over,
until your fingers bleed and your soul is drained. But if you tell
newbies <em>that</em>, they might decide to go off and do something
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the first year it came out, but eventually decided there was no
future in investing time in baffling discussions that usually ended
with "oh, never mind -- turns out it's a bug" <0.9 wink>.</p>
<p class='source'>Vladimir Marangozov and Tim Peters, 23 Jun
1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q78'>Python - why settle for snake oil
when you can have the <em>whole</em> snake?</p>
<p class='source'>Mark Jackson, 26 Jun 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q79'>The problem I have with "SETL sets"
in Python is the same I have with every other language's "killer
core" in Python: SETL is much more than just "a set type", Eiffel
is much more than just fancy pre- and post- conditions, Perl's
approach to regexps is much more than just its isolated regexp
syntax, Scheme is much more than just first-class functions &
lexical closures, and so on. Good languages aren't random
collections of interchangeable features: they have a philosophy and
internal coherence that's never profitably confused with their
surface features.</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 10 Jul 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q80'>"Since I'm so close to the pickle
module, I just look at the pickles directly, as I'm pretty good at
( run in 0.997 second using v1.01-cache-2.11-cpan-39bf76dae61 )