We don't even speak the same dialect, yet you're sure that a word I've heard hundreds of times is archaic. Even after I provide you the million results that shows otherwise. If Doctor Who is any indication, next you'll say that "toilet" (the fixture) and trunk (of a car) aren't proper words either cause gee, that's not what they're called in your world.

Like I said about 3 or more levels back: I defy you to find a modern, none-defining usage of it anywhere on the internet!

I did. I gave you nearly a million of them. Here are some of them again:

Cause facebook, science fairs, video games and the words "blog" and "nerdiness" existed in archaic times...

Globs are big bunches of data types. It's not crazy to think they could have been named after "glob".

In reply to Re^16: Where to find info on low level perl internals names? by ikegami
in thread Where to find info on low level perl internals names? by Anonymous Monk

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