Baseball Toaster: Fairpole : Why Fairpole Changes So Slowly

Why Fairpole Changes So Slowly

2007-02-16 01:59

by Ken Arneson

The software that runs the Toaster is written in a scripting language called Perl. It's my favorite programming language, but I must admit, it does have its downsides. It works great, but the actual coding of it is difficult, as demonstrated here:

Warning: "Vista" is a four-letter word, but not spelled NSFW:

Comments

2007-02-16 02:12:21

1. Andrew Shimmin

Delete in the Yankee ok to have!

2007-02-16 02:34:20

2. Ken Arneson

think you.

2007-02-16 10:01:38

3. scareduck

Brilliant.

2007-02-16 10:17:46

4. StolenMonkey86

1- My God, an alliance between Steinbrenner and Gates. Could there be anything more evil?

2007-02-16 10:54:46

5. Greg Brock

That is one of the most painful things I've ever seen.

2007-02-16 18:43:29

6. rbs10025

Input eagles!

2007-02-18 06:56:37

7. Daniel Zappala

Ken, Ken, Ken. Perl??? Take a summer off and convert the whole thing to Ruby on Rails.

2007-02-18 18:40:07

8. Ken Arneson

7
(a) Ruby on Rails wasn't really around when I started writing this.

(b) I am converting the whole thing, but not to RoR. RoR makes a lot of assumptions that don't work for my current project.