Published on Tuesday March 20, 2007 .
Recently I've been looking into other languages and talking about them with friends, but we keep coming back to the same realization: for all of its warts, we're always going to always have a soft spot for Perl. Here's just one of the many perlisms I'd miss in another language:
# create a new CGI object with three levels of masking:
# defaults get masked by parameters, and parameters get masked by overrides
my $cgi = new CGI( { %$defaults_ref,
%$parameters_ref,
%$overrides_ref,
} );
I know I said I was going to get an E61, but Amazon canceled my order and I ended up with a Nokia E50 instead. Aside from a limited ability to multitask due to memory issues, I'm very happy with it as an interim solution until I find the phone I really want.
If nothing else, I kinda missed T9 on the E61/E62, not only for it's entertaining t9onyms, but also for it's faux spell checking functionality. And speaking of t9onyms, how did Dewitt not coin "t9onym" when he wrote his classic T9 Synonyms post?
As for my next phone, who knows? I want 3G, I ideally want Series 60 3rd edition feature pack 1, and an integrated GPS would be nice. I'm pretty indifferent to the qwerty vs. keypad decision at this point. The N95 would be pretty sweet if it weren't $800 and had US 3G bands.
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