It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night.

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Re: It's official: Perl = Per1 by Itatsumaki (Friar) on May 04, 2004 at 20:36 UTC
Actually, this is kinda funny -- the gene isn't `perl`, but rather "Per One", it's just that the 1 and l look the same in the font in that article. Per1 is the symbol for Period Homolog 1, a PAS family protein first identified in drosophila (fruit fly). The period series of genes (two in higher eukaryotes, I think) are critical clock proteins, important for setting circadian rhythm. -Tats	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: It's official: Perl = Per1 by tye (Sage) on May 04, 2004 at 21:08 UTC
Actually, it is that "Per1" looked exactly like "Perl" to the person who typed in the copy for the web page. Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3682207.stm and search for "`Perl`" (3 matches) and search for "`Per1`" (no matches) and you'll see. - tye	[reply]
Re: Re: It's official: Perl = Per1 by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 04, 2004 at 21:02 UTC
Awe! You ruined a nice joke ... but it's nice to know the facts. Thanks:) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night. by bluto (Curate) on May 04, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
When the rats behaved normally, their SCNs contained Perl when the lights were on - simulating daytime... So either: (1) Perl is so natural it occurs even in rat brains, or (2) Perl distorts minds down to the rat level. While I'd like to think #1 is true, I'm a little worried since they mention "lights were on", but didn't mention anything about occupancy...	[reply]
Re: It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night. by valdez (Monsignor) on May 04, 2004 at 15:30 UTC
That's incredible :) And what kind of boring language is `Bmall`? Ciao, Valerio	[reply] [d/l]
Re(2): The truth behind Bmall... by Ovid (Cardinal) on May 04, 2004 at 16:02 UTC
And what kind of boring language is `Bmall`? Befunge and Smalltalk got drunk, hit the hay, and spawned off a child process affectionately known as `Bmall`. It combines the power of OO with precisely one data type. It ran away from 127.0.0.1 and was presumed dead, but reappeared recently, muttering strange things about its technical superiority before disappearing once again and re-emerged after marrying Brainf*ck. Unfortunately, their child was named "Brainall" and I mistakenly thought it was a sport drink for geeks and drank it. My bad. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply]
Re: It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night. by Tomte (Priest) on May 04, 2004 at 15:38 UTC
;-) And I thought someone named a new-born Perl ;-) regards, tomte An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus	[reply]
Re: It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night. by jZed (Prior) on May 04, 2004 at 19:05 UTC
Amazing! And it's nice to know that rats have Perl in their brains rather than perl. They grok the language but they don't have an implementation of it. Now rats with perl would be scary.	[reply]
Re: Re: It's official: Perl keeps you awake at night. by CountZero (Bishop) on May 04, 2004 at 19:55 UTC
It is obvious rats have "perl" in their brains: they are the world's most intelligent animals existing. After all, they are the only animals who regularly and repeatedly can force academicians to invent games and toys for them (mazes and other labyrinths). CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]