I am a bit of a Douglas Adams fan and I have just finished reading his biography "Hitchhiker" by MJ Simpson. It was cool to find the following Perl reference, even if it was purely incidental. In Chapter 41 it discusses the company h2g2, during the companies down-turn marketing executives (a group that DNA specifically included on the Golgafrinchan B-Ark) were brought in to come up with ways to help the company along... this apparently led to the kind of nonsense ("f***ing stupid") suggestions that marketing types come up with. In one discussion the marketroid made a suggestion to which the designer/developer said "No thats not technically possible" when asked why not his frustrated response was "well, what do you know about Perl?".

Perl makes the easy things easy, the hard things possible and helps keep the marketroids at bay :)

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

In reply to Douglas Adams and Perl, Nearly by greenFox

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