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Thursday, January 25 2001

The Ubergeeks : "Code is an expressive language,

just as are mathematical formulae, music scores and dance choreography. ... That code is literary also is illustrated by the many devotees of Perl poetry, or, on the other side of the coin, by the International Obfuscated C Code Contest which seeks to illustrate through the irony of functional but poorly written code (deliberately so, for the purpose of the contest) the importance of good writing style."

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National Post : "Taped to the walls and halls of Callahan's home

are letters, both those in praise of his work and the sharply critical. One is from Judge Lance Ito, thanking Callahan for the books he sent after the cartoonist heard the judge ask during the O.J. Simpson trial: 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a Callahan cartoon?'" In many ways, this sort of thing can be the highest honour for a cartoonist. It is also, though not exactly the same, the kind of behaviour that finally drove Ralph Steadman from political cartooning. When the subjects of your work start calling, wanting the originals as a kind of trophy you have to wonder if something isn't quite working.

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Dave Cross : Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit

I spent some time reading the docs to the Template Toolkit. It's very cool despite the fact that you can embed code in the templates or maybe because it allows you pass whole objects around the templates as substitution variables. This actually makes the creepiness of the code in templates dilemma that much worse, but it's just so cool.

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