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Re: [Omaha.pm] ChemChains, DLUG, ..etc.
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Lawless, Jim wrote:
Hey, Jay. I wish I'd have paid more attention ... I would've
chatted you up while we were waiting for the classroom to open last
night. ( I was about the only other one there ... black shirt and
jeans ... while Blaine and his crew talked . )
Nice to meet you. Sorry we didn't chat. :)
I was briefly a loyal Omaha Perl Monger ... I'd had that Obfuscated
Perl contest 2nd place winner ... which, BTW, is now in the
O'Reilly book Games, Diversions, and Perl Culture ... I'm
immortally indexed on page 498 ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/
tpj3/inx.html ). Maybe I'll get to chat with you a the next meeting.
Ahh, cool. You're listed in our history:
http://jays.net/wiki/Omaha_Perl_Mongers#2003_and_earlier
I have a copy of that book at the med center. I'll have to look up
that page. :)
Thanks for your presentation of the ChemChains effort and your
modeling program in Perl. I'm tempted to try a stab at it myself,
but I'm not sure that I undertstand the problem correctly. ( For
some reason, I'm thinking that I would implement the nodes as
function-defintions that I would eval() into the running
interpreter for Perl or Ruby or something and would then just call
these functions ... but that seems too simple.)
Well, I'm not sure I understand the problem either, so you're in
"good company." Of course I understand my implementation of my
solution according to the way I understand the problem pretty well. -
laugh- I'm hoping ideas and questions like yours and the C++ version
and others will help me understand the problems better and evolve the
software and my ability to wield my computer skills in the
advancement of medical research... It's a long journey with many
winding side roads. :)
I avoid eval() whenever possible, so I wouldn't use that in one of my
solutions. Have you looked at the code yet? Do you have specific
questions? Or would a longer meeting be good?
We could organize a Perl Mongers / Dynamic Languages Users Group
ChemChains meeting/hackathon or something and invite whoever wanted
to show up. :)
http://jays.net/wiki/ChemChains_sandbox
Cheers,
j