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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 at 20:44:28 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > sh2perl goes back even further than that, though not as a fully > functioning program. The mythological sh2perl program was one that > would email your shell program to either comp.lang.perl (back when > there was *only* comp.lang.perl) or Tom Christiansen. In reply to some query on c.l.p. (about perl program generators, maybe), I remember posting a joke perl program-generator (not module) in, perhaps, 1990 which invited you to select a function for a program. All it did if you ran it was post to c.l.p. with a title of "I don't think perl can $title", with Followups-to 'poster'. In those days, such a posting would invariably get responses showing that perl *could* do it. Now everyone knows that, so they don't bother :-) I don't think anyone ran it, but I did get a couple of appreciative responses. It wasn't April 1, just a quick hack, but I took the trouble to make sure it worked. Sorry, lost in the mists of time. IanThread Previous | Thread Next