RE: [FWP] perl5 is 5

["Rubinow, Larry" <Larry.Rubinow@westgroup.com>]

Ronald J Kimball wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:46:52PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> > perl5 is 5.
> > 
> > So in the spirit of JAPH:
> > 
> > for(0..3){print"Happy birthday ".(/2/?"dear perl5":"to 
> you").(/3/?".":",")."\n"}
> > 
> > Can anybody get it smaller...
> > 
> 
> Yes.  73 characters:
> 
> print$a='Happy birthday',$b=' to you',",\n$a$b,\n$a dear 
> perl5,\n$a$b.\n"

Excellent!

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