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and sent pages and pages of complete ascii garbage tearing across my poor procomm screen, and my boss walked by and asked if I was "learning perl."

Once, I was playing with an Etch-a-Sketch, when my boss walked by and asked if I was "learning Visual Basic".
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Re^3: The Perl Hacker Inferiority Complex
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 28, 2006 at 08:23 UTC

    Of course the advantage of developing on an Etch-a-sketch is that they are quicker to reboot than other devices, the downside is that version control is difficult - you have to put the sucker very very carefully upside down into a photocopier.

    /J\

      You could also put it on a wooden table and take a digital photo of it ;^)