I’ll Tell You What…

In the continuing saga that is my professional life and programming, I seem to be doing more in Perl than anything else at the moment. Even with the motivation to read and study Java and Python I seem to be falling back on what I know better. And that’s not a bad thing, […]

This has a much better output. It actually types out the word for the number instead of just the number itself.

Two bottles of beer on the wall.
Two bottles of beer.
Take one down.
Pass it around.
One bottle of beer on the wall.

One bottle of beer on the wall.
One bottle of beer.
Take it down.
Pass it around.
No more bottles […]

/**
* Simple program that prints out the words
* to the 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
* song.
*
* Based on the BeerSong example in the
* _Head_First_Java_ book with corrections.
*/
public class BeerSong {
public static void main (String[] args) {
[…]

public class hello
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(”hello, hello…”);
}
}

So I’ve been wondering lately about programming languages.  I’d like to thoroughly learn one but I’m stuck as to which one.  Over the years I’ve used many different languages from a variety of BASICs to Pascal to Perl to Java and so on but I’ve never really sat down to dive in head first and […]

Here’s a very basic verse of the day-type application that I wrote while playing with Perl and the Tk module. This version is platform independent, ie, it works with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.

In order to run this under Windows, you must have ActiveState Perl installed and have the Tk module installed. […]

An interesting question is on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. Question 17 asks the following:

17. Consider a function which, for a given whole number n, returns the number of ones required when writing out all numbers between 0 and n. For example, f(13)=6. Notice that f(1)=1. What is the next largest n such that […]