Re: Apoc2 - concerns ::::: new mascot?

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> Several perl ports, and at least one book, use a "shiny ball" as a
> symbol.
> It took me a bit of thinking before I realized what this "shiny ball"
> represents. Odd.

Beginning Perl was going to use a blown-up microscope slide of a grain
of sand - the beginnings of a pearl. Of course, nobody would have got
it, so we went with a cat instead, which is even more oblique.

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