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in reply to Perl in Fall

At pfaut's suggestion, here's one that prints out "Just another perl hacker."

$me = "Just a"; print "other perl hacker.\n" if print $me and print "n";

Hmm, the problem with making code haiku is that people pronounce symbols different ways... imagine trying to write a haiku in perl if you pronounced each "dollar sign".


Perl Monks do it more than one way.

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Re^2: Perl in Fall
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 15, 2003 at 22:27 UTC
    Somewhere during my young and innocent BASIC days, annoyed at the lengthy (even more so in German) "dollar sign", I picked up the habit of pronouncing $ as "string". I have never been able to shake it since. :)

    Makeshifts last the longest.

      same here, aristotle. :)

      sometimes i even find myself pronouncing it in UNC shares: \\server\share$ ("share string")

      I have not developed via habit a wonderful shortcut for dollar sign (or just dollar). I think if I'm going to give it the verbal chop, I'll try training myself to use Buck. You know, buck as in dollar. If I can knock it to one syllable, I'll get more ! for my speaking $.
      =)

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