Re^5: Syntax Perl Version support $c = () = $a =~ /\./g

What a hoot! The explanation is kinda graphic.. I leave it to others to go to Wikipedia themselves.
There is a lot of folklore in computer terminology. I remember FUBAR from the 1960's as a military term which although somewhat disputed, I figure is the origin of the ubiquitous foo() and bar() coding examples.

I did correct my 2 "e" spelling in another post - thanks for that!

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Re^6: Syntax Perl Version support $c = () = $a =~ /\./g by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 24, 2018 at 17:42 UTC
If that floats your boat you will surely appreciate The New Hacker's Dictionary (AKA The Jargon File) which has entries for both foobar and FUBAR.	[reply]
Re^7: Syntax Perl Version support $c = () = $a =~ /\./g by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 25, 2018 at 04:58 UTC
What a hoot! re: Failed UniBus Address Register (FUBAR)... For one H/W project, the team wanted to use the acronym, PRICK. I vetoed that, but I allowed PRIC with a plausible set of words. This was only intended to be the development name, not the "real" name. However this acronym wound up going very far into the release process. Documentation was writing sentences like, insert the PRIC to the right of the hard disk card! Geez! Turned out to just be a minor kerfuffle but the development dept had a good laugh. The team that developed the PRIC card did an excellent job. It worked. We just changed to the "official name" which I have forgotten already.	[reply]