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TMTOWTDI
There's More Than One Way To Do It. This
abbreviation of the official motto of Perl is frequently used on
newsgroups and mailing lists related to that language.
Related:
Quote #533 There's More Than One Way to Do It -- Perl Motto
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k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
Unobfuscated Perl (#1) A rogue group of Perl hackers has presented a plan to add a "use really_goddamn_strict" pragma that would enforce readability and UNobfuscation.
With this pragma in force, the Perl compiler might say...
MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
ewsgroup n. [Usenet] One of Usenet's huge collection of topic groups or fora.
Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
ewsgroup: [USENET] n. One of {USENET}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}.
Usenet groups can be `unmoderated' (anyone can post) or `moderated' (submissions are automatically directed to a moderator, who edits or filters and then posts the results)....
0490 Do you read news? 0491 ... More than 32 newsgroups?
0492 ... More than 256 newsgroups? 0493 ... All the newsgroups? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
How many AOL users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven. One to ask to be on the light bulb gif mailing list, nine to say "ME TOO!...