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in thread The Social Network

So you don't care about the movie but you do care enough about other people talking about it that you post a comment...

I find it a iteresting bit of trivia.

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Re^3: The Social Network
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2010 at 07:48 UTC
    Who is talking about the movie? While Jim loaded question certainly assumes that its being talked about by the perl community, including himself, there is no evidence to support this :) Its almost not unlike an attempt at reverse psychology :)
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      No psychology, really — reverse or otherwise. I was just tacitly inviting Meditations on the topic.

      I suspect this is the highest profile reference to Perl in popular culture in a long time — maybe ever. You don't just see a snippet of Perl code on a computer monitor — which you do — or a Perl book on a shelf in the background. In an important scene at the beginning of the film, Perl is prominently mentioned in the voice-over narration of the Mark Zuckerberg character reading Zuckerberg's own real online diary.

      To me, it's odd that on the preeminent social networking Web site for the Perl community, PerlMonks, there's no discussion of this reference to the Perl programming language in the movie that was ranked number one at the box office in the U.S. this weekend.

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        I do think it's interesting and cool and I'm glad you brought it to everyone's attention; ++. I think you misinterpret the reasons no one is discussing it. You'd have to pay me $250 to watch this movie and I suspect many Perl hackers are in the same camp. We're interested and glad Perl got some props but the social networking story itself is intrinsically uninteresting to many of us.

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