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Postings from November 2002
I am giving my first Perl talk to Sydney.pm in a week or so and would
like to start it with an introduction to the lighter side of Perl
culture.
I started by trying to identify the categories. Here is what I have
come up with so far. Being a Perl late-comer, I am not certain of
the accuracy of what follows. Corrections and additions welcome.
Some of this info. was got from history.perl.org, some from various
emails to perl mailing lists.
1) JAPH R.Schwartz (1988).
2) .sig in Perl A natural extension of JAPHs.
3) Perl Poetry L.Wall (1990).
4) Haiku Popularized by D.Conway(1998) in Coy module,
but were they popular before this?
5) Perl Golf L.Wall/R.Schwartz(1990) -- the playing. For example
in this post Larry plays golf with himself but
mentions Randal so I assume he also played around
this time:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Apr29.072206.5621%40jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
G.Bacon(1999) -- coined the term
6) Obfus Derived from JAPHS (?) Who did the first one?
7) Joke Modules sh2perl (R.Schwartz,1998)
Semi::semicolons (M.Schwern,1999)
Acme namespace (D.Conway,2001 via Acme::Bleach)
use less (Perl core -- who is responsible?)
I heard rumours that sh2perl goes back to 1990 with
a version that would email the shell script to
tchrist and ask him to write a Perl version.
I.Phillipps did a similar trick with a Perl
program/function generator around 1990 that
sent a request to Perl newsgroup.
8) Sayings/Quotes Many from L.Wall from C source code comments etc.
Two interesting recent ones:
"use strict is gay" (BK,P.Cawley,D.Cross,R.Clamp)
"schwern is my bitch" (Belfast.pm (?))
I know history of the former but what does it mean:
"schwern is my bitch" ??
9) April Fools 1990: "Black Perl" -- L.Wall
1998: sh2perl -- R.Schwartz
1999: Semi::semicolons -- M.Schwern
1999: "Java Mongers" -- ??
2001: parrot -- S.Cozens
2001: Acme::Buffy -- L.Brocard
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