in reply to Guinness Book of Perl Records

There are members of pmdev from Europe, Asia, Oceania.

Each one of them, when contributing code to PM, is performing a trans-oceanic code contribution.

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Re^2: Guinness Book of Perl Records
by hossman (Prior) on Jan 11, 2005 at 08:35 UTC

    I think he ment that he crossed the state-lines with the CPU while the script was running, and that the script had an open connection to a database server which was not traveling with him.

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      Oh, I've done transatlantic ssh sessions from here (Munich) to the PM servers. For that matter, I once hacked an X program over remote X -- from a 56k dialup in Lancaster, PA, to CalTech.

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        ++ on the Lancaster,PA reference. It's not often you hear Amish country and technology mentioned in the same breath :)

        -jbWare
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