Acme::Phlegethoth(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Acme::Phlegethoth(3)
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Acme::Phlegethoth - Improve your code's readability, if you're an
Ancient One
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use Acme::Phlegethoth;
print "goodbye, world!\n";
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Acme::Phlegethoth improves the readability of your Perl programs to the
Elder Gods. This may accelerate a debugging session where you feel
compelled to invoke them. After all, if you're outsourcing development
to Cthulhu, you'd better damn well be sure He can read your code.
Acme::Phlegethoth translates your code to Aklo the first time your
program uses it. From that point on, your program continues to work as
before, but it now looks something like this:
use Acme'Phlegethoth;
ia ia! mnahN' NAflHriI R'LuHnyTh BUgoR SLl'HAog gOf'NN Hai ron
gOf'nn Nnn'aIog FHTagN LlLL YHlIRgHOG GoF'Nn naCh'! nNNvuLgtlAGlN
thROD! PhLeGetH StelL'BsNaoth sll'Ha! aH NAfL'AIyAR H'EbUMna
HliRGHog eHYeOG nnnSgn'WAhL fm'laTgh ah ILYaA h'zHRO iLYaa
H'gnaIihNYtH EBumnA s'Uhnor [Text ends abruptly.]
which loosely translates to:
Hear me!
Call upon the cowardly servants of the unbelievers! Invite them to
into our Church! Watch over them, protect them! These heretic
children will enter the beyond to sleep beside our Master!
Prepare us for the time when the Servants of your Father rise from
the Pit to fulfil his pact.
Our unshaken belief will protect our place on Earth!
[Text ends abruptly.]
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"Can't summon '%s'"
Acme::Phlegethoth could not access your code to translate it into
Aklo. The Ancient Ones will be most displeased.
"Can't banish '%s'"
Acme::Phlegethoth could not access your prayer to execute it.
Never let this happen. The Sleeping Ones do not like to be
awakened without reason.
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Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@cpan.org>
This was loosely based on Leon Brocard's Acme::Buffy, which in turn was
based on Damian Conway's Bleach module. That was inspired by an idea
by Philip Newton. By now there's enough blame for everyone.
But what really sparked my imagination was Meng Weng Wong's quote from
a couple Ruby users:
<flippo> ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
<ibroadfo> flippo: don't paste perl in here
They will of course be eaten last.
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https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Acme-Phlegethoth
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http://github.com/rcaputo/acme-phlegethoth
OOTTHHEERR RREESSOOUURRCCEESS
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Phlegethoth/
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Copyright (c) 2006-2009, Rocco Caputo. All Rights Reserved. This
module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified
under the same terms as Perl itself.
Thanks to the "Cthuvian / English Dictionary" for providing the lexicon
and translations in one convenient place.
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