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• Yeah, it was me, alright... (Score:3, Insightful)

  by merlyn (47)

  Did the very first perlians hang out on all unixy newsgroups and throw elegant Perl solution at problems people were asking (and expecting to see solved otherwise)?

  Yes, I hung out on comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell before comp.lang.perl got its start, and answered nearly every question with a 1-2 liner in Perl.

  It got to the point where people would post a question, and at the end say "no perl please". I'd of course gleefully ignore that, or also post a non-Perl solution as well just to show ho

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
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  • Re:Yeah, it was me, alright... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by oneiron (2615) on 2003.02.02 0:15 (#16631) Journal

    I noticed a most interesting name among the NO voters for comp.lang.perl (1989) [google.com]. :-)
    Was the reason for the NO vote a desire to continue to gleefully ignore the "no perl please" pleas from the Unix folks?

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    • Re:Yeah, it was me, alright... (Score:3, Funny)

      by merlyn (47)

      Heh... I didn't remember doing that until you brought it up... but it was up there because I expected the group to pass by overwhelming numbers, and wanted to stand out in the vote. And now here it is, over a decade later, and my trivial rebellion is recorded for all to see.

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