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I'm not sure I follow, we're not supposed to comment on this? Well, given the recent discussions about poetry in the Monastery, I feel inclined to state that this poem stinks. There, I feel better now.

This poem is wrong on two levels. At one level, have you heard of The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement? Just because you, ahem, fork, doesn't mean you wish to procreate. There may be other reasons coming into play, as it were.

Secondly, 0 is a legitimate return code from fork. It means you're the child. Therefore: 

     my $kid = fork;
     die "Dammit, I must be sterile." unless defined $kid;

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is a more accurate depiction of what you're trying to say. Perl Poetry is successful when it works on many levels. This only works on one. You may as well have written it in BASIC. Come on, challenge me. Make me think.

In reply to Re: Don't know where this came from... (and I don't know where it's supposed to go) by grinder
in thread Don't know where this came from... by Malevolyn

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