in reply to The most Perlish Beatle was...

hum, it's no surprise George leads the poll, besides from advertising for Solaris system, he also wrote perfectly sound Perl code : " When you've seen beyond your $self, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there" AND he used 'use strict' as you can guess from this :"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box". There's a Larry in George and vice-versa...