Re:Perl Quotes
by draegtun on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:11PM
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If another language has something similar to the Acme::* area of CPAN then I think it probably qualifies itself has having same sense of humour :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356954
Here's a video which you may also find amazing, appalling and entertaining all at the same time! - Barely Legal XXX Perlhttp://oslopm.blip.tv/file/1903160/
Video summary: Acme::BadExample is a grammatically correct Perl program which is impossible to run! The challenge is to bend the perl5 VM to make it run!! No spoilers now :)
Re:Perl Quotes
by pasbesoin on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @12:44PM
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The first link mentions Conway's 2008 talk. In... 2001, IIRC, he spoke at YAPC in Montréal where he introduced programming in Klingon (via Perl). He pointed out that this was certainly imperative programming.
Here's a video which you may also find amazing, appalling and entertaining all at the same time! - Barely Legal XXX Perl http://oslopm.blip.tv/file/1903160/
Video summary: Acme::BadExample is a grammatically correct Perl program which is impossible to run! The challenge is to bend the perl5 VM to make it run!! No spoilers now :)