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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
November 1, 2012 09:15
Subject:
Re: perl 5.16.2 is now available
Message ID:
20121101181503.37fb1443@lap.shlomifish.org
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:42:57 -0400
Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
>
>
> Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
> machine. When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
> trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
> little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
> to be, a few pale orange polkadots. Extremely pleased with himself,
> he whistled an air and, as is always done on suh occasions, asked it
> the ritual question of how much is two plus two.
>
> The machine stirred. Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
> current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
> transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
> chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
> adding a special mentation muffler. Meanwhile the machine labored on,
> as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
> solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
> valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
> the strain. At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
> machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!
>
> -- Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, Trurl's Machine
>
> We are happy to announce Perl 5.16.2, the third stable release of Perl
> 5.16.
Thanks to all the people for their hard work. Nice quote, too.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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