I Made This For All My Perl Peeps

By Robert Fischer | February 29th, 2008

Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris: Larry Wall Haz Dem
(If you don’t get the joke, read this. The industry-standard CPAN Perl library also hosts a bunch of Larry Wall witticisms, right next to The Perl Purity Test. There’s some real software over there, too. Oh, and I mean Peeps1, not peeps.)

1 OMG, my eyes!!!

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3 Comments

  1. Hamlet D'Arcy
    Posted February 29, 2008 at 9:34 AM | Permalink

    Wow. Is that seriously what Larry Wall looks like? I’ve just decided not to let my children play with Perl under any circumstances whatsoever. (I’m pushing Squeek anyway)

    Reply
  2. Jeremy D Pavleck
    Posted February 29, 2008 at 9:59 AM | Permalink

    That mustache means serious business. It is the source of Perl’s power.

    Reply
  3. Robert Fischer
    Posted February 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM | Permalink

    @Hamlet

    Well, it looks like Larry Wall’s Wikipedia mug, and I found the shot through Google Image search, so that means the Two Great Sources of Truth agree. Must be him, right?

    Reply

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