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Happy Birthday Perl!

Posted by chrisd on from the theres-more-than-one-way-to-blow-out-the-candles dept.

Puppet Master writes: "Just remembered that Perl was created on this day (12/18) in 1987 by Larry Wall..." Check out the Time Line and the discussion on use.perl.org and I'll take this chance as a reminder to donate to the Damian Conway/Dan Sugalski slavery fund.

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  1. we we're all talking about by wiredog · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The Perpetually Eclectic Rubbish Lister.

    Slashcode is written in Perl. I'm not sure if that's an advertisement for or against slash, Perl, or both.

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  2. Re:Let's get that fund growing! by MisterBlister · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Um,

    Give a bunch of money to some lazy fat-ass geeks, that are unwilling to go out and get real jobs, so they can write unmaintainable code that looks like the line noise I used to get on my 300 baud vicmodem?

    Not this guy. Why don't you donate enough for the both of us?