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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: random numbers?
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.191223.8293@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:12:23 GMT
References: <16698@venera.isi.edu> <3#3Gz8.j@cs.psu.edu> <292@kyzyl.mi.org> <11422@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

In article <11422@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
| And some of the JAPH scripts won't work.  Not that those JAPHs were
| portable in the first place...

One, Larry.  One.  I wrote only *one* that used srand/rand.  Before
you quickly thwacked me for being non-portable.

OK, so "one" is a subset of "some". :-)

And, who says a JAPH has to be portable?

$_ = `hostname`; s/..(.)(.).(.)(.)/Ju\3t \1noth\4\2 P\4\2l h\1ck\4\2,/; print
# works on "iwarpse"..... :-)
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