He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody.
Knows the blocksize from du(1)
Cares not where /dev/null goes to
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?
UNIX Man, please listen(2)
My lpd(8) is missin'
UNIX Man
The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.
He's as wise as he can be
Uses lex and yacc and C
UNIX Man, can you help me At all?
UNIX Man, don't worry
Test with time(1), don't hurry
UNIX Man
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody ...
Making all his UNIX plans For nobody.
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Anyone who has experience of being a roadie, or knows one, will know the biggest requirement is versatility. Along with that comes being able to fix things at short notice, quickly and without fuss. Much appreciated with those who use their services and general unknown to the masses. Describes Perl to me :)

I'm voting for Ringo. I have no deep reason for voting this way, I just think it is fun to say "Ringo". It has a nice ring (ringo?) to it. he he. Sorry for the cheesy pun, I couldn't help myself.

Paul would be java PHP, whatever it is that everyone else is doing.
George would be lisp, coz it's elegant
Ringo would be using BASIC .. a little bit outdated, but still a little bit of cool left.
and poor Pete would be left behind .. so probably Fortran.

George, hands down...

Besides being an ardent follower of the Mahjarishi (sp?) and thereby demonstrating actual monkish behavior.. There is further evidence:

my $guitar;
while (&gentlyWeeps($guitar)){
   # iterate over the other lyrics
}
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tsk tsk... a shame to not include poor paco? paco

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What qualifies as 'Perlish' ?

I mean, almost any computer language can result in great changes. They can be confusing and instigate fights, and yet generate works of art when placed in the right environment ... but I don't know if I'd qualify Yoko as particilarly 'Perlish'.

(And I'm not one to bother with the histoy of bands, and I've never really been into the Beatles, so I don't know the history well enough to take digs at the other people on the list)

That's never stopped any of us ...

--
tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub)
And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee

Where is Sgt Pepper?
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At first I was also disappointed that I couldn't vote for paco.

So playing with the offered choices Yoko is the obvious choice:

$beatles = "PaulJohnGeorgeJohnRingo";
@yoko = split(/John/, $beatles);
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@a = ("a".."z"," ","-","\n");foreach $b (
12,0,17,10,24,12,14,14,13,26,8,18,26,0,26,
22,0,13,13,0,27,1,4,26,15,4,17,11,26,7,0,
2,10,4,17) {print $a[$b]};print $a[28];
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