Comments on: Gah! I used to do this for a living? http://blog.xcski.com/2006/11/26/gah-i-used-to-do-this-for-a-living Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Parsons http://blog.xcski.com/2006/11/26/gah-i-used-to-do-this-for-a-living#comment-13115 David Parsons Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:30:24 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/11/26/gah-i-used-to-do-this-for-a-living#comment-13115 But aren't pack() and unpack() simply perlish library functions? just doing a printf'ish mangling of a list of variables seems like it would be well-suited to a similar function in the One True Programming Language(tm); the manpage for pack() is not completely clear (and it's perl-cutsy. Nybble? Ugh) but it certainly seems like this is a pair of functions that could trivially be written in tOTPL. And once written, you'd have the perlish functions without the overhead of perl (and without doing the supreme sacrifice of sacrificing perl for p*th*n) But aren’t pack() and unpack() simply perlish library functions? just doing a printf’ish mangling of a
list of variables seems like it would be well-suited to a similar function in the One True Programming Language(tm); the manpage for pack() is not completely clear (and it’s perl-cutsy. Nybble? Ugh) but it certainly seems like this is a pair of functions that could trivially be written in tOTPL.

And once written, you’d have the perlish functions without the overhead of perl (and without doing the supreme sacrifice of sacrificing perl for p*th*n)

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