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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. Re:Meatwad and Frylock: Sweet Lovers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    -1 Offtopic? Stupid fucking moderators, this was a good goddamn story. I hope you Linux-loving virgin asshole faggots all catch the AIDS and cry like little bitches when your pencil dicks rot off.

    FUCK THIS LAME-ASS WEBSITE. SLASHDOT FUCKING SUCKS.

  2. Re:But too old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    HAHAHAHHaa.. too old for plastic face.... good one!

  3. To what end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Still can't fuck it.

    But depending who you talk to Perl does suck the big one.

  4. 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...
  5. Re:Sixteen? Perl just graduated to two hex digits. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nobody likes a smart-ass, you little faggot cunt!

  6. Re:Happy Birthday Perl by Doomrat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But thanks to our friends at the RIAA that'll be $3,000 to sing it....

    Grow up.

  7. 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.