Geek Humour
Last night, reading A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages I broke down in hysterics at the point I read this.
1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.
Karen asked what was so funny and I told her "nothing, it's a geek thing". She couldn't help come and read it though. After the second read (to check if she'd missed the joke) she shrugged and said "It's just words", which made me laugh even more.
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Hilarious... but so true :)
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Very, very funny :-)
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Thanks for this - had the whole IT department snickering away with this..... :-)
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Well... actually, I saw it coming right from the start. Forehead on keyboard, random strings, Perl... hahaha... haha... haaaaaa... how original...
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Don't laugh to hard. For a time Perl was *the* scripting language to learn and solved a lot of problems.
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Mike - my first job was developing SED and AWK scripts, Perl was a ‘breath of fresh air’ in comparison ;-)
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