Back to square one.

I keep going round and round in circles. I began with perl at the behest of a sysadmin and made the switch to python and then went to perl and then python and thankfully stopped. I wrote two deployable web applications in TG and Django and switched between them a gazillion times before finally zeroing on Django (despite the fact that the design of django itself contradicts my incremental web development style) and then went in a circle with Lisp and Python in April and now I have done it again. After having spent nights writing regular expressions to match patterns in a html file which is 500 pages long ( NEVER USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS TO PARSE HTML. TYPICAL PAIN IN THE A$$ ), then decided to use pyparsing. Pyparsing’s documentation is as elaborate as the book, “How to please Shriphani Palakodety with horribly written Perl (I admit you don’t need to put extra efforts to achieve that but let us say you spend that extra minute trying to ruin your code further)”. They advertise an ebook that doesn’t have any bloody examples. I had to spend hours reading stupid presentations on the Internet to figure out what was to be done and now I have decided to come back to using orthodox html parsers.

After that long rant, I am once again participating at the GHOP. I have picked task 320 without knowing anything about OpenGL. Lets see how it goes.