EPIGRAPH

It's not that easy to find a person you love and willing to do anything for you... Of course, you'd pay with the same value too. Still, it's not easy as you agree. Seeking that "special one" is such a cumbersome process, that sometimes might end up ironically. How about ending up in the mental house!? Well, that's not quite ironic... but not original intention either. And the ones who find their stars are entitled to consider themselves the happiest.

SHE'S READY TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME

I haven't realized until yesterday that someone I met about 7 months ago was indeed that special one that I had been looking for ages. I still recall those sweet memories of mine... It was after 3 days I ordered my first Perl book from Amazon.com, "CGI Programming 101". That was my first introduction to her, to Perl.

After the book Perl became my hobby. Whenever I had time I enjoyed her company. As we got to know each other better... the closer we got. Then I bought Programming Perl, which opened my eyes to see what she is like in reality. The book showed me all the sensitive spots on her body... taught me how to treat her better. As the result she started treating me the same way... made me feel so much better that I can't find words to express my gratitude to Perl. The book also taught me the point of using:

use strict;
and
use warnings;

to prevent me from tedious debugging process in the later stages. Then I got addicted to her, she got addicted to me... not a single night I can recall that we spent without each other.

She does everything I ask her to, assuming I do it right and politely (which is always true). The book also taught me to wrap my request inside eval{} blocks when I'm not sure if she'll accept it and catch exceptions on the fly without failing the process. The following was my first proposal

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warning;
eval { 
    require You;
    require Me;
} or warn $@;

It means "I can't live without you. You and Me should be the one soul residing in a single body."


She accepted it. Since then, she never said "no". She always made me happy. 
Gave me hope when I was hopeless;
Hold me tight in her arms when I was depressed and told me "it's ok";
Supported me the days when I was broke... without a cent in checking;


You might ask if I did anything special to her. I did everything she ever asked me to:

She wanted independence - and I made classes out of modules and gave her objects she wanted so much (thanks to "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Convey);
She wanted persistency - I learnt how to encapsulate the properties into methods and gave her persistency;
She wanted flexibility - made those methods more polymorphic and gave her flexiblity she longed for.

EPILOG

There is still something missing in her... But what is it? I don't know? 
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