Re: [Fun With Perl] One of those fancy .sig files

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:

Peter> Reverse engineering it is one thing... the part I don't
Peter> understand is how to get into the kind of twisted frame of mind
Peter> necessary to create the thing in the first place :-)

Peter> Actually, I really would like to know how people dream up these
Peter> things.  What were they thinking of at the time?

My historical "Just another Perl hacker," one-liners were mostly because
I was bored saying:

	print "Just another Perl hacker,"

after every post.  So it slowly evolved to the point where before I
would finish each post, I would look for the most obscure operator in
"man perl" (back when it was all one page) and then figure out how to
use it.

And *that* signoff came about because I was doing:

	Just another XXXXX hacker,

at the bottom of each of my postings across the board in Usenet, and
got bored because I was saying:

	Just another Perl hacker,

at the bottom of my most frequent posts.  So, I changed it from data
to code. :)

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