It was a dark and stormy night...

#!/usr/bin/perl

#A tale of Two cities, by Charles Dickens
#Adapted to Perl by Trag

$Best_of_times=1;
$Worst_of_times=1;

print "Fatal logic error" 
if 
$Best_of_times==$Worst_of_times;

die;

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Hope it got a chuckle

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print "Just another iconoclastic Perl hacker";

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Re: Perl does Dickens
by CloneArmyCommander (Friar) on Apr 12, 2004 at 15:38 UTC
    That's a problem that's been bugging me for quite a while. After a severe brain overload, trying to figure out how it could be both the best and worst of times, I just quit trying to anylize it :), it seemed slightly oxymoronic :). Maybe that "die" function is why I can never get past the first line of the book in order to finish it, or even get started :), hahahaha :). Anyway, excellent job, I'm thinking there should be a new node added to Perl Monks called something like "Perl Literature" and release Perl programmers on classic literature :).
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      To be perfectly honest, I've never read the book, I just
      thought it was funny. I used my l33tsp34k program to
      convert a copy of the book from http://promo.net/pg/
      Project Gutenberg.
      As to your suggestion regarding classic literature, it
      sounds like it could work. Shakespeare could easily fit under
      obfu perl though <g>. Seriously though, maybe we're onto something.

      Vroom, if you're listening, we need a Perl Poetry subset for literature!

      print "Just another iconoclastic Perl hacker";
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        Hahaha :). It is an excellent script :). I've never read the book either :), that first line always bugged me :).
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