I Made This For All My Perl Peeps

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 29, 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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  • http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com Hamlet D’Arcy

    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)

  • http://www.pavleck.com/blog/ Jeremy D Pavleck

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

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertfischer Robert Fischer

    @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?

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