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Perl is Sweet Sixteen

Posted by michael on from the jailbait dept.

surflorida writes "Perl turned sweet 16 yesterday. 'Larry Wall released Perl 1 on this day in 1987, so today Perl is 16 years old. Happy birthday Perl! You can read more about the timeline of Perl releases in perlhist.pod and at history.perl.org.' Happy birthday Perl! You are now old enough to get a US drivers license."

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  1. Yeah, but... by heretic108 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, but she's been fucked every which way long before today...

    --
    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  2. Re:1987 was 16 years ago?? by Peaker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What can be written in code - should not be in comments.

    The reason Perl programmers think lots of comments are good is because they tend to write their program twice. Once in obfuscated Perl code, and the other in some Python-like/English code within comments.