>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Savige <ajsavige@yahoo.com.au> writes: Andrew> http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html describes Sharon Hopkins as Andrew> "the reigning Perl Poetry Pumpqueen" after the publication of her 1992 Andrew> definitive work "Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry meets the Perl Andrew> Programming Language". This is an interesting paper and I'm curious Andrew> to know how she came to write it. Does anyone know what provoked her Andrew> into writing this paper? How/when did she meet Larry? Did she ever Andrew> work with him? She worked with him (next cubicle over, I believe) when he was at JPL (lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.gov). Andrew> Apart from her wonderful poetry, what other stuff has Andrew> she done with Perl? Is she still writing Perl and poetry today? Andrew> Was the writing of poetry ever a design consideration in any version Andrew> of Perl? Well, it's been said that barewords in Perl3 were the result of wanting a simple way to write: @days = (mon,tue,wed,thu,fri); although that fails for: @months = (jan,feb,mar,apr,may,jun,jul,aug,sep,oct,nov,dec); (Do you know why? :-) But also barewords were added so that Sharon could write better poetry. Hence, it is also called "poetry mode" in some of my earlier writings. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!Thread Previous