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I remember this -- I swear this was in one of the Perl books (the Camel book?) way back when. It's valid Perl 3, but it is not supposed to do anything useful.
by area51org 13y ago
I remember this -- I swear this was in one of the Perl books (the Camel book?) way back when.
It's valid Perl 3, but it is not supposed to do anything useful. The idea is simply to show how expressive you could be in the language.
- steveklabnik 13y agoIt is in my edition of the camel.
- nandhp 13y agoMost of the discussion on Perl Poetry in the Camel Book is by way of inclusion of this Usenet post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/news.groups/qSO-Q0rxg_E/RrRnThLKrMMJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/news.groups/qSO-Q0rxg_E/RrRn...
- andreasvc 13y agoI don't understand what you mean by 'expressive' in this sentence: if it's not to make the program do something specific, you could just wrap everything in a comment block and be as 'expressive' as you like in any language.
- mst 13y agoI elaborated on actual expressiveness here: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/pizza-snakes-bicycle/ http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/pizza-snakes-bicycle/ (which post starts by quoting the Black Perl to put you in the mood :)