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Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC (Score:2, Funny)

by chicks (2930)

Perl is now the official language for expressing euphamisms on the Internet. All other languages for expressing euphamisms, particularly English and COBOL are hereby deprecated.
- Re:Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC (Score:1)
  
  by 2shortplanks (968) on 2002.03.18 8:46 (#6083) Homepage Journal
  
  Surely "official language" is itself a euphamism for "commonly accepted norm".
  use constant OFFICAL_LANGUAGE = "Perl"; die "Wrong langauge '$language'" unless $language eq OFFICAL_LANGUAGE;
  
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  - Re:Somebody should do this for an April 1 RFC (Score:2, Funny)
    
    by 2shortplanks (968)
    
    And the best thing about explaining it in Perl is that you can diff your explanations when you make mistakes
    
    --- comment Mon Mar 18 16:55:25 2002 +++ comment2 Mon Mar 18 16:57:07 2002 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -use constant OFFICAL_LANGUAGE = "Perl"; +use constant OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE => "Perl"; die "Wrong langauge '$language'" - unless $language eq OFFICAL_LANGUAGE; + unless $language eq OFFICIAL_LANGUAGE;

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