The Star Trek character Data supposedly seeks an elusive emotion chip. Just because there is mention of an emotion chip in a few Star Trek episodes doesn't mean that the Star Trek props department actually developed one.

Just because Social Network mentions Perl scripts doesn't mean that the Social Network's producers actually hired Perl developers to write any. The movie Social Network is a fictionalized account of a real individual, and a real company. It's probable that the actual Zuckerberg used some Perl here and there, but unlikely that the real-life story line injected Perl scripts at the same point in history and for the same purposes as the fictionalized mentions and fictionalized uses of Perl.

It doesn't make sense to speculate as to the actual purpose and nature of Perl scripts that are fictional.

Thanks for explanation!

I'm glad that we could be of help in dispelling the misunderstanding that the silver screen is used to depict reality.




Dave

If I remember well, in one of the Matrix movies, some of the code that scrolled over the screen was COBOL. Probably the least likely language to run a world-spanning multi-user first person simulation with.

If I remember well, in one of the Matrix movies, some of the code that scrolled over the screen was COBOL. Probably the least likely language to run a world-spanning multi-user first person simulation with.

logic dictates it just looked like cobol :) and if it was genuine COBOL, thinking machines could make it likely :p

Thanks for that Quote, its so inspiring and Your Blog is very well designed and everything's so perfect, Great work!

Sorry, too late but this is nothing but the truth about this story, as i've been told by Michael H. Kenyon.

The original code was:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;           
print header, start_html('We are only in it for the money'), h1('hello
+ world'), end_html;
[download]

A little later someone unknown changed this snippet to h1('Like').

Mark then had the idea to turn the headline into a hyperlink pointing to somewhere.

Then the code was converted to PHP™ and then to C++™ by some unknown genius from India.

As easily can be seen Perl™ once again was the root of all eval.

Update: And it's guaranteed that this post is written in pure Denglisch™.

I hope this helps and best regards, Karl