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Most bizarre module ever

james on 2003-06-05T16:19:24

What the hell does this do?

http://search.cpan.org/author/SOFTDIA/Military-STD2167A-0.03/

No Eyed Deer

Dom2 on 2003-06-05T16:36:20

But I was sure I'd seen a reference to the guy who wrote it on use.perl before - softwarediamonds and I know that some people have funny names on CPAN, but "Samson Monaco Tutankhamen"? You gotta be kidding me...

Re:No Eyed Deer

hex on 2003-07-03T15:21:41

I wonder if he's related to "Rameses Niblick the Third, Kerplunk Kerplunk, Whoops, Where's My Thribble"?

Is wack indeed

autarch on 2003-06-05T16:58:49

It appears to be POD versions of standards docs for software development in the (US?) military.

However, it only the second most bizarre distro ever. The winner of that title is Meta. Hands down, no arguments, undeniably the most bizarre thing ever uploaded to CPAN, excluding intentional jokes like the Sex modules or the Acme::* stuff.

Re:Is wack indeed

inkdroid on 2003-06-05T17:36:44

By all the Gods of Sanity, I can only wonder what v0.9 will bring!?!

Re:Is wack indeed

jordan on 2003-06-09T14:42:41

  • The winner of that title is Meta. Hands down, no arguments, undeniably the most bizarre thing ever uploaded to CPAN, excluding intentional jokes like the Sex modules or the Acme::* stuff.

And, if, by some unforeseeable possibility, someone did come up with an even more bizarre than META, then the next version of META would just include that particular distro in it and things would be put right again.

nntp link

LTjake on 2003-06-05T18:08:28

FYI, here's a link to Tim Bunce's reply (includes module reasoning) regarding the module submission.