I found myself responding, earlier today, to a request for a list of reasons for using open document formats (such as, conveniently, the OpenDocument Format) instead of closed, proprietary formats. This was in a non-programming discussion forum, in a thread about things unrelated to programming except in the loosest sense in that office application design came up briefly, and the question to which I responded was distinctly unrelated to programming.

My direct response to this involved posting an ad-hoc Perl script that stored the bullet points of my answer in an array. The script, if run, would randomly (meaning by use of srand and rand()) select one of the points and print it to STDOUT.

Have I been spending too much time thinking about Perl lately? Can you, the Monks, provide me with some more symptoms I should be looking for that I'm afflicted by Too Much Perl?

(I duplicated the code in this weblog entry, which collects most of my commentary in the discussion thread in question in one cohesive essay, in case you're interested in seeing it. It's not remarkable enough to bother reposting here, though. Waste of screen real estate, really.)

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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