God Creates Universe in Seven Days, Perl Gods Not Impressed

I'm not normally inclined to post 'amusing' outside links in the monastery, but this article over at BBspot was remarkably perceptive, and had me laughing so hard I thought my sides might split, so I felt I should share it ;-) '... Kosman continued, "And 'Hey, God!?' there's a MODULE for assembling nucleic proteins and amino acids. Try 'Use Biology::DNA'. ...'

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Re: God Creates Universe in Seven Days, Perl Gods Not Impressed by turnstep (Parson) on Jan 26, 2001 at 03:23 UTC
KOSMAN: And 'Hey, God!?' there's a MODULE for assembling nucleic proteins and amino acids. Try 'Use Biology::DNA'. GOD: Who do you think WROTE the module, smart-ass? And it's 'use' lowercase, not 'Use'. Dang know-it-all mortals, can't even get the basic syntax right...	[reply]
Re: God Creates Universe in Seven Days, Perl Gods Not Impressed by merlyn (Sage) on Jan 24, 2001 at 20:51 UTC
Heh... I've seen nothing of God's work that compares to the Schwartzian Transform. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Re: God Creates Universe in Seven Days, Perl Gods Not Impressed by extremely (Priest) on Jan 25, 2001 at 10:01 UTC
That was the bit that made me laugh out loud. =) Well, without Hubris we'd still be working in bash and awk, trying to get them to pretty-print HTML... -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re: Re: God Creates Universe in Seven Days, Perl Gods Not Impressed by tekniko (Deacon) on Jan 25, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
The sheer genius of such a post causes one to be humble...The Perl Gods are smiling, to be sure!	[reply]

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