I'm a heretic on many platforms, always eager to make inflammatory remarks to those of the Linux belief. My actual homepage is at http://www.corion.net/ where I maintain some Win32 toys, some Perl scripts and a file format wiki...
I've finished my studies ! Woo hoo !
I'm writing an Xfree86-win32 How-To, see my notes here.
Things people said about me :
Some more info : I'm 30 years old, have studied mathematics (algebra) and started real work (that is, after financing my studies by freelancing as programmer/bofh) in the middle of April 2001. When I was supposed to be at the university, I'm was part-time BOFH-ing for a small heterogenous network in a development shop. In my spare time (in my what ?) I ride my motocycle, a Kawasaki Zephyr 550
My taste in music can be regarded as rather wide, the two main favourites are Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode, but in general the taste ranges from Techno, House to Rap and even some Metal ;). Having a large collection of music also dosen't help narrow that taste in ...
My current motto :
I post some of my favourite nodes here, together with an explanation why I like them. See it as some sort of self-glorification or mutual adoration thing.
| Things are not what they seem like. | Elegant. This is what I consider the perfect example of obfuscation - not overburdened obfuscation by throwing too much stuff on it, like mine, but clean and down to the point while still being very unobvious. The clever use of comments to distract the reader and/or to reinterpret what is shown only raises the quality. |
Modules for lazy programmers
| Name | Reason |
|---|---|
| Symbol::Approx::Sub | I am too lazy to fix my typos. |
Interesting languages and concepts
Currently, I'm trying to expand my knowledge about different languages, mostly not to learn many different languages but to understand the culture and ideas behind those languages, and the algorithms that are easy to implement in these languages. For example, sorting complex structures is easier and more natural in Python than it is in Perl.
- Promises in the E language - a method to implement concurrency without the danger of deadlocks. The outright claim "no deadlocks" is too broad, but they claim that like functional programming diminishes side-effect errors (== global variables), promises reduce deadlock errors. Promises might look like proxy objects in Perl, much like Class::Realize::Later, but with asynchronous communication. E features some more interesting stuff, like encryption and distributed computing designed in from the start.
- E in a Walnut
- E Weblog on Lamba
Note that much of E seems to be a pipedream as development seems to have stopped 2000 at version 0.8 :-(I'm told there now is a 0.82 release and the mailing list shows activity in 2005