Perl is the aging professor who always seems absent minded and speaks in a sometimes absurdly complicated seeming manner, but can calculate cubic roots (is that the English term?) in his head without any aids and will find and fix mistakes in his colleagues' exams' questions while overseeing a class that is writing one, because he's bored and has nothing better to do. (I actually had such a teacher.)
Makeshifts last the longest.
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Perl is the aging professor who always seems absent
minded and speaks in a sometimes absurdly complicated
seeming manner...
No, that's Haskell. Perl's
the gruff, impatient first-year prof who's nevertheless
beloved by most of his class (the get-a-degree-get-a-job
types don't like him, because he won't tell them what's
going to be on the final) and seems frighteningly competent
in every specialization you (or he) can think of. (And
yes, I had such a prof -- several, in fact.)