I recently ran across an ad in a comic book for an online comic retailer that contains some perl. They seem to have gone under since the ad was printed. The ad is actually pretty old, but I didn't see any references to it on perlmonks, and thought people might be interested to see it. I've posted a scan of the ad here.

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Re: perl in advertisement
by vladb (Vicar) on Jul 22, 2002 at 17:46 UTC
    That's one piece of dirty Perl code featured in that ad, robobunny ;-). However, I still would give a ++ for picking that one up. For one, I haven't seen much advertisement featuring Perl in one fashion or another. Well, this is true unless you mention ads ran by numerous webhosting companies (such as pair) that purposefully mention or even display some Perl code to appeal to the OpenSource masses loyal to this language.

    Which reminds me, I've got to Google! {grin}

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      Looks like that guy in that ad thinking in perl is reading a copy of the Camel book, from here possibly a 1st edition copy.

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        He's reading about 'ioctl' on page 180 (of the 2nd Edition).

        Pat

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Re: perl in advertisement
by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 23, 2002 at 01:09 UTC
    I just ran across an ad for Microsoft's 'Project Server 2002' (part of the .NET family of servers or so it says), containing in the background a slightly out of focus bookshelf which includes the titles 'Programming Perl', 'Perl Cookbook', and at least 2 other O'Reilly titles (can't tell what they are though). The ad is a 2-page spread and there's only 12 books on the shelf, I thought it was mildly amusing that the perl books stood out the most (the 'Perl Cookbook' is especially easy to identify, having the largest type).
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Re: perl in advertisement
by virtualsue (Vicar) on Jul 23, 2002 at 13:52 UTC
    Last year I saw a job ad which consisted of some obfuscated Perl code. Since the company which posted it was relatively local, I contacted them to find out more. Unfortunately, the job itself turned out to be for a Visual BASIC programmer. :-/
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      With apologies to all VB programmers:

      Maybe they figured that someone who understood obfuscated Perl would understand Visual Basic (which is naturally obfuscated)...

      Pat

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