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From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
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PERLHIST(1)      Perl Programmers Reference Guide     PERLHIST(1)

...
        Larry   1.000          1987-Dec-18
...


Congratulations to Larry and everyone else involved.
==

It bothers me that people were writing Perl code when I was six.

Happy birthday to Perl,  :-)

- Chris.
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:59:48PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> PERLHIST(1)      Perl Programmers Reference Guide     PERLHIST(1)
> ...
>         Larry   1.000          1987-Dec-18
> ...
> It bothers me that people were writing Perl code when I was six.

It bothers me that you are so young.

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   o/~ we wish you a merry currency and a happy new euro o/~


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>> On 19 Dec 2002 02:14:11, David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> said:

   > It bothers me that you are so young.

It continues on down the loop.  I turn up to chess tournaments and play
obnoxious 14 year-olds who spend an hour of their clock eating crisps
and laughing with their mates before coming back to blitz the last
half-hour and still win, so I definitely know what you mean.  :-)

- Chris.
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