Perl and Green Beer

pudge on 2002-03-16T19:44:12

Paul Barry (barryp) writes "So, just what has Perl got to do with Green Beer? Quite a bit! Learn more by checking out my most recent, em, er, 'article' for Linux Journal. Ummm ... is it too late to submit an RFC for additions to Perl 6?" Yes.

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Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC

chicks on 2002-03-16T22:03:24

Perl is now the official language for expressing euphamisms on the Internet. All other languages for expressing euphamisms, particularly English and COBOL are hereby deprecated.

Re:Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC

2shortplanks on 2002-03-18T13:46:11

Surely "official language" is itself a euphamism for "commonly accepted norm".

use constant OFFICAL_LANGUAGE = "Perl";
 
die "Wrong langauge '$language'"
  unless $language eq OFFICAL_LANGUAGE;

Re:Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC

2shortplanks on 2002-03-18T16:57:03

And the best thing about explaining it in Perl is that you can diff your explanations when you make mistakes

--- comment    Mon Mar 18 16:55:25 2002
+++ comment2    Mon Mar 18 16:57:07 2002
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use constant OFFICAL_LANGUAGE = "Perl";
+use constant OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE => "Perl";
 
  die "Wrong langauge '$language'"
-  unless $language eq OFFICAL_LANGUAGE;
+  unless $language eq OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE;