Re: [Fun With Perl] A Very Important Question

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 15:06 -0500 06/12/1999, Tushar Samant wrote:
>    $$_ =~ y/0/1/; bless $_; #bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated!

A Shakespearean scholar in our midst :-)

At 15:35 -0500 06/12/1999, Tushar Samant wrote:
>
>I forgot to say that we were getting tired of saying dollar-underscore.
>"ARG" seems short and motivated; let's see how it flies.

Sadly, my only source of reference refers to this as dollar underscore

The following poem is excerpted with permission from Lee Leitner's
"Viewpoint" column which is featured in a bimonthly periodical for
Prime INFORMATION users called INFOCUS magazine. The original author's
were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of
Grand Rapids, MI.

FYI - a "wahka" is the decidedly "proper" (by popular vote) name for
the characters ">" and "<". This is in spite of INFOCUS readers of
Denver who still refer to them as "Norkies". The Michigan crowd
apparently has corrupted the spelling to "waka".

To wit, it is -
------------------------------------------------------------
  "...a poem we think is about the lowly wahka. Maybe. Well,
   perhaps---we're really not sure what the poem actually is
   about. Here it goes:"

     <>!*''#
     ^@`$$-
     !*'$_
     %*<>#4
     &)../
     |{~~SYSTEM HALTED

Transliterated:
     Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
     Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
     Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
     Percent splat waka waka number four,
     Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
     Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.

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