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nastiest technical questions there is: Am I on the internet? This a problem that had no clean permanent solution, and for which you could just keep writing more and more functionality indefinitely, asymtopically approaching 100% correctness but never reaching it. And so LWP::Online is intended to do as good a job as possible, without having to resort to asking any human questions (who may well get it wrong anyway), and limiting itself to a finite amount of programming work and a reasonable level of memory overhead to load the code. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Online/ PR: ports/156260 Submitted by: milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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LWP::Online attempts to answer, as accurately as it can, one of the
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nastiest technical questions there is: Am I on the internet?
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This a problem that had no clean permanent solution, and for
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which you could just keep writing more and more functionality
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indefinitely, asymtopically approaching 100% correctness but never
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reaching it.
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And so LWP::Online is intended to do as good a job as possible, without
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having to resort to asking any human questions (who may well get it
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wrong anyway), and limiting itself to a finite amount of programming
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work and a reasonable level of memory overhead to load the code.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Online/
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