| Lachlan Brown on Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:25:02 +0100 (CET) |
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Seems an important innovation,
Lachlan
# Perl Routines for the redistribution of the worlds wealth
# Takes the cash from the rich and turn it into clean drinking water wells.
# w.blake@scotoma.org
# v 0.0.1
# Copyright (c) 1792-2002 William Blake
# Unpublished work reconstituted W.Blake@Scotoma.org.
# Permission granted to use and modify and append this library so long as the
# copyright above is maintained, modifications are documented, and
# credit is given for any use of the library.
# This code is distributed under the same conditions as perl itself
# This code is distributed with no warrenty whatsoever.
# Thanks are due to many people for reporting bugs and suggestions
# For more information, see http://www.scotoma.org
#Constants
my $SKINT = 0;
my $TO_MUCH = $SKINT + 1;
#This is a anonymous hash record to be filled with the Name and Cash of the rich
%{The_Rich} = {
0 =>{
Name => '???',
Cash => '???',
},
}
#This is a anonymous hash record to be filled with the Price Of Clean Water
#for any number of people without clean water
%{The_Poor} = {
0 =>{
PlaceName => '???', #the place name were to build a well
PriceOfCleanWater => '???',
Cash => '???',
},
}
# for each of the rich, process them one at a time passing
#them by reference to RedistributeCash.
foreach my $RichBastardIndex (keys %{The_Rich}){
&ReDisdributeCash(\%{The_Rich->{$RichBastardIndex}});
}
#This is the core subroutine designed to give away
# cash as fast as possible.
sub ReDisdributeCash {
my $RichBasterd_REFERENCE = @_;
#go through each on the poor list giving away Cash until each group
# can afford clean drinking water
while($RichBasterd_REFERENCE ->{CASH} >= $TO_MUCH ){
foreach my $Index (keys @{Poor}){
$RichBasterd_REFERENCE->{CASH}--;
$Poor->{$Index}->{Cash}++;
if( $Poor->{$Index}->{Cash} =>
$Poor->{$Index}->{PriceOfCleanWater}){
&BuildWell($Poor->{$Index}->{PlaceName} );
}
}
}
Lachlan Brown
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