06-24-2008
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duderonomy
I wonder why that is? What was I breaking?
The easiest way is make one function "old" style, one "new" style, 'set -vx', then compare output.
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Originally Posted by
duderonomy
Hmmm... This makes me wonder if %SOME_LARGE_PERCENTAGE% of the existing code base in the world is a workaround for what the programmer did not understand.
I don't know the answer to that, but one example I can think of was KDE vs QT. In the past the KDE team did a lot of odd tweakage instead of using QT to its fullest. That changed though. Even if a programmer understands it all there's bound to be hundreds of ways to do something "better" (more efficient, more performant). Wrt scripting reading static guides like the ABS (again), reading fora like these and other peoples scripts helps, the rest is experimenting and "just" gaining experience. And as F/OSS shows, if things can be improved they will be.
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ppmtopgm
ppmtopgm(1) General Commands Manual ppmtopgm(1)
NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap
SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original
image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b.
Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can
read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting
color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original
colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph.
QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is a quantization error.
SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
10 April 2000 ppmtopgm(1)