When would you get an ant, a spider, a man o' war, Martin, Halley, Julia, Lorenz, Lyapunov, Newton and the Gingerbread Man all in a frothy basin?

#perl -w
use strict;

#########################################
#                                       #
#                bop.pl                 #
#            Beauty of Perl             #
#                                       #
#            suggested use:             #
#    perl bop.pl 70 20 for a console    #
# perl bop.pl 1000 1000 for a textfile. #
#                                       #
#########################################


my ($martin,$manowar,$kamtorus,
  $hypercomplex,$unity,$ant,$spider)=@ARGV;
unless (defined $manowar)
  {($martin,$manowar)=(70,20)};
unless (defined $ant) 
  {($kamtorus,$ant,$unity,$hypercomplex)=(-2,1.5,1,-1.5)};
$spider=50 unless $spider;
my $frothybasin="X.'-;/?71ICDOQ\@M";
for (1..$manowar) 
{
  my $halley=$hypercomplex+$_*($ant-$hypercomplex)/$manowar;
  for (1..$martin) 
  {
    my $julia=$kamtorus+$_*($unity-$kamtorus)/$martin;
    my ($lsystem,$lorenz,$lyapunov,$newton,$gingerbreadman)=(' ',$hall
+ey,$julia);
    for (1..$spider) 
    {
      $newton=$halley+$lyapunov*$lorenz+$lorenz*$lyapunov;
      $gingerbreadman=$lyapunov*$lyapunov+$julia-$lorenz*$lorenz;
      ($lorenz,$lyapunov)=($newton,$gingerbreadman);
      if ($lorenz*$lorenz+$lyapunov*$lyapunov>4)
        {$lsystem=substr($frothybasin,$_%length($frothybasin)-1,1);}
      last unless ($lsystem eq ' ');
    }
    print $lsystem;
  }
  print "\n";
}
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Dave

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