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Perl is Sweet Sixteen
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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wow i feel special being able to say that i am exactly 5 years older than perl.
cmon perl i'll buy you a drink (just dont tell anyone!)
Thanks to crying mothers telling sob stories of teenagers getting into crashes, in most US states, 16 now gets you a learner's permit, but you need to be 17 to drive without your parent sitting next to you.
Furthermore, restrictive licenses given to young drivers in most states make carpooling with fellow high school students illegal... at my high school, 50 more cars showed up the day that law went into effect in 1998 and every day thereafter...
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The door creaked open slowly, and the unmistakable sound of his sobbing roommate could be heard. Sighing, he got out of bed and turned on the light. "What's wrong, Meatwad?"
"Frylock, Shake's been pickin' on me again." The sad little meatball sniffled. "He said I stole his motorbike and so he set fire to my bed. But I didn't steal no motorbike!"
He rubbed a fry softly over his companion. "It's okay, you can sleep here tonight."
Meatwad cheered up instantly. "Ya mean it? I mean, I'd sleep on my bed, but it's still burnin'..."
"No, no, sleep here." Turning off the light, Frylock nudged him in the direction of the bed. "It'll make it that much harder for Shake to terrorize you in the morning."
"Alright, slumber party!" Forgetting his previous somber mood, Meatwad hopped up to the bed. "I don't take up much room, but I think I talk sometimes. I'll try not to talk to loud or somethin'."
"Fine. Just go to sleep." Telepathically pulling the covers over both of them, Frylock closed his eyes, ready to go back to sleep.
"Frylock?"
A sigh. "What, Meatwad?"
"Why's Shake always pickin' on me? I don't do nothin' to him. He always blames me for somethin' though, and I don't like it."
"You never fight back, Meatwad. Shake's like a bully, and you're just playing the weak little kid on the playground. You're too innocent." Though that's what I love about you.
Frylock's eyes widened at the unwelcome thought in his head. He must have meant "like". Meatwad was a good friend. He was like a child. But Meatwad was the same age as Frylock. They had grown up together. They had been so close through the years. But physically, they had never been this close, never shared a bed. He could count every one of Meatwad's long, dark eyelashes from here, see every little chunk of onion.
"I know I never fight back, but I'm not good at that sorta stuff like you are, Frylock. I'm not really strong." Meatwad only wanted Frylock to protect him. Frylock was so strong and so smart, Meatwad just wanted to let Frylock take care of him. Just for Frylock to wrap two strong fries around him and whisper that everything would be okay. And right now was the closest he had ever been to his childhood friend. He looked up to find him staring down at him intently.
"Whatcha lookin' at, Frylock?"
There was that innocence in his voice, in his expression. Could Meatwad possibly know how much Frylock wanted him? How beautiful he was? How he never wanted to see him crying again?
He cleared his throat. "Just thinking that it's a real pity Shake picks on you so much."
"Oh." A pause. They continued to stare into each other's eyes. "Yeah, it stinks."
There was that sadness in Meatwad's eyes again. Frylock reached down a wiped away a stray tear. "Don't cry, Meatwad," he whispered. "I won't let him hurt you ever again."
Finally, there was happiness - and hope - in the meatball superhero's eyes. "You mean that?" When Frylock nodded, he grew two little arms and reached out to hug his friend. "Thank you bunches, Frylock! I knew you cared!"
A smile crossed Frylock's face. "You're right, Meatwad. I do care. I care a lot."
Meatwad pulled away to look into his friend's face. He bore a gentle, friendly smile. He looked so handsome. "I..."
"What is it?"
"I...care about you, too, Frylock." A pause. "A lot. More than a friend."
Frylock's deep-fried heart jumped in his chest! Now it was his turn to shed a tear - one of happiness. "Do you honestly mean that, Meatwad?"
Meatwad bobbled up and down - what Frylock could only assume was a nod - and grinned from end to end. "I do!"
Lowering his face to Meatwad's, Frylock placed a chaste, delicate kiss on his lips.
Meatwad almost jumped out of his skin - or at least, his outermost shell of meat. He had never expected this from Frylock, ever. Less than a split second later, however, he was ardently returning the kiss. Passions that had simmered for so l
Or did your sense of humor get cut off like your balls?
I was going to look at how old Python is, but it seems that xs4all.nl dropped its DNS... Is just me, or is python.org presently gone (12:25am EST)?
No where in the story is the mention of Python, therefore you're offtopic
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Many people are probably going to say that GUIs are inherently object-oriented, as they attempt to reconcile programmatic constructs with tangible objects. But the fact that GTK+ isn't implemented in, say, C++ isn't necessarily as bad as it sounds -- I don't think extending classes is particularly useful for GUI programming -- by deriving, you're either essentially encapsulating the parent class's functionality along with other functionality, or doing weird stuff to the internals of the parent to extend it. What's really important is that GUIs are concurrent and event-based, and hence the primitives which are reused all over the place need to be as well. Contrast a push-button, which generates an event for the containing program to handle whenever the user decides to click on it, with a square-root function, which only when instructed by the containing program takes a value, performs a finite amount of computation, returns another value, and stops. This is why Qt has its signals and slots. This is why TCL/Tk has been used so much for GUI programming despite its terribly lacking language features. This is why Java uses threads in its GUI frameworks. This is why the failed BeOS focused on highly efficient multi-threading. Although I agree that object-oriented encapsulation is essential for organizing the code of widgets, asynchronous lightweight concurrency is at least as important to make GUIs work. Derived objects, on the other hand, don't seem too useful for GUIs so long as you have interfaces or a good implementation of generic functions and type inference. Unfortunately, popular object oriented languages like C++ and Java don't really add this over C -- C++ is still totally sequential at heart, and Java's threads aren't particularly lightweight, nor is its huge library. - BitcK
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