In a way this is my take on Perl is a black diamond language?, whilst reading the discussions it turned a cog that loosed a thought that had been stuck in my head since merlyn's birthday.

On a trip to the Zoo with my son, we stopped at the Llama enclosure, I read the blurb next to the enclosure, you know: warnings not to let children pet carnivores or "amazing furry facts" so rivetting you fail to notice your youngest being nibbled by something resembling a four legged emu.

Apparently Llamas are able to walk 15 minutes after being born.... that's not in the OReilly Llama book's colophon. Of all comparisons sited between Llamas, Perl and the book itself, I feel this is most apt especially of the Llama book.

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Brother Frankus.

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Re: Lama Glama.
by zigster (Hermit) on Nov 30, 2000 at 21:18 UTC
    When I was last at the zoo, I read the blurb next to the camels... aparantly 15 minutes after they are born every ickle baby comes up with a fantastic life changing invention.. The real shame is that they are completly unable to tell anyone about because their language is just to difficult to understand by us non-camels.

    Tiss a shame really....
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    Zigster

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      When you were last at the Zoo, your wife had to do some pretty fast talkin' to stop the keepers from putting you in with the other chimps ;-P.

      "Stick with me on this metaphor thing"1 :-). A baby Camel doesn't work or walk half as soon as a Llama. So you can be an incomprehensible baby Camel (as Camel says it's not a tutorial) or a baby Llama carrying light loads and err um and evolve erm err Pokémon-like into a Camel.

      1. Reference to Paula Gordon Interview. 

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      Brother Frankus.
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