RE: OT: Perl problem

["Ward, David" <David.Ward@xxxxxxx>]

That's actually what we did ;-)
I beleive the actual position was that 'The Punters would never know, we'd
just tell 'em it was the whole thing' - 'They probably won't even notice it
anyway' .....  Oh well,  I'm in a different job now :-)



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Kilgore [mailto:amkilgore@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:44 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Perl problem


Dave,

As a programmer often put in the position of being asked to do impossible
things, I can sympathise with you...!?!

Mind you, in your case I would have simply nodded and said
"Sure".
Then, get it to scroll the 1st 64kb of the sequence repeatedly.
You'll find that testers can be lazy beasts when it comes to testing stuff
like this...!!!

> Ahh, 'Designers'
And let's not start about Marketing...!?!

;-)

Andy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ward, David" <David.Ward@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Perl problem


> Tony,
>
> Go on then I'll ask.  I'm dying to know what you are doing with the
data?
>
> A previous employer once asked me to program a scrolling LED message
display
> with the entire human genome sequence,  I had graet difficulty
explaining
> that not a great deal would fit into the 64kb memory of the thing....
Ahh,
> 'Designers'  - appologies to any designers here ;-)
>
>
> Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Butler [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Perl problem
>
>
> Quoting Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>:
>
> > On Thursday 17 July 2003 10:23, you wrote:
> >
> > > Ye gods - why do so many of u know what a DNA sequence looks
like? :)
> > > Correct on both counts - no white space, no nothing.
> >
> > I've got A level biology, me ;) I've posted a solution to the
list.
>
> Of that's alright then :0
>
> Thanks Ant, Phillip, Kieran for your answers.
> It's always nice to know that given the same problem, each programmer
comes
> up
> with a different solution that will do the job.
>
> But which one is "best"? :)  (kidding)
>
> cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
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