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A Perl Script Is Correct If It's Halfway Readable And It Gets The Job Done Before Your Boss Fires You.
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A Perl script is correct if it's halfway readable and it gets the job done
before your boss fires you.
-- "Programming Perl," by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz
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Camel Book n. Universally recognized nickname for the book "Programming Perl", by Larry Wall and Randal L.
Schwartz, O'Reilly and Associates 1991, ISBN 0-937175-64-1 (second edition 1996, ISBN 1-56592-149-6)....
End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
..] -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distributio...
Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
-- Larry Wall in the perl man page regarding chroot(2)...
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...
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OPPRESSED GEEK: Everybody keeps blaming me for the Y2K problem, the Melissa Virus, Windows crashes.
.. you name it. When somebody finds out you're a bona fide geek, they start bugging you about computer problems....
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Quote #206 Perl IS a psychological study. -- -- Larry Wall [Newsgroup
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UNobfuscated Perl Code Contest The Perl Gazette has announced the winners in the First Annual Unobfuscated Perl Code Contest.
First place went to Edwin Fuller, who submitted this unobfuscated program...