Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Dave Cross
From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/5/03 12:36:31 PM Dave Cross wrote: From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/4/03 1:15:10 PM Maybe my perl brothers here have some comments on it. Luis, Is there any reason why you're not interested in the opinions of

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Gareth Morris
To answer the original question, surely blue as in the Blue Camel??? Gareth _ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *monger - O.E. mangere, from L. mango (gen. mangonis) dealer, trader, *from Gk. manganon contrivance, means of enchantment. Used in comb. form *in Eng. since at least 12c.; since 16c. chiefly with overtones of petty *and disreputable. The modern verb is first

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Gareth Morris wrote: To answer the original question, surely blue as in the Blue Camel??? Well, the first Camel book I saw was pink... I don't think that's a good pick... =-] Paul Makepeace wrote: Perlple? Nice shot. What kind? Its interesting to note that blue + pink = purple. =-] Mark

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *monger - O.E. mangere, from L. mango (gen. mangonis) dealer, trader, *from Gk. manganon contrivance, means of enchantment. Used in comb. form *in Eng. since at least 12c.; since 16c. chiefly with overtones of petty *and disreputable.

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether: So the Perl Mounger colour is Mango orange? Leon, I blame you. Unfortunately I am currently in Portugal having fights with Haskell and .NET people. Otherwise I would clearly have brought up the fact that orange is clearly the One True

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:29:29AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Friar Tuck, as I recall :) You might be amused to know the original name for search.cpan was TUCS which I believe was to be accompanied by a picture of Friar Tuck. What did TUCS stand for? Walt pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: *On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:29:29AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: * Friar Tuck, as I recall :) You might be amused to know the original name * for search.cpan was TUCS which I believe was to be accompanied by a * picture of Friar Tuck. * *What did TUCS

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Ben
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:40:20PM +0100, Ali Young wrote: OK, lets solve this: Take a large quantity of psychotropic drugs. Look at some Perl code. Curse you! I'm working this weekend Ben

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Marna Gilligan
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ali Young wrote: Or find someone with synaesthesia. The word 'perl' - it's a pale yellow in my brane. Lighter than a lemon-yellow, and with less green - almost with a hint of orange. The colour the code is? Probably depends on the code. I'm not sure I *give* code as a whole

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * * Where are the list girls and their good-taste for decoration? =-] Well, to be honest, gay men know far more about decorating than I do as I only use white or beige paint on the walls of my house and my clothes are mostly all black so I can be

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:36:31AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: I apologi(z|s)e for any confusion this may cause. Ah! I just finished reading trought the entire list, and noted that no one here even remembered to mention a color for perl... =-] Maybe What is this word color

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Marna Gilligan wrote: The word 'perl' - it's a pale yellow in my brane. Lighter than a lemon-yellow, and with less green - almost with a hint of orange. Who cares what colour perl is, I've still got this darn bikeshed that needs painting[1] ;-) (or, this could turn into a

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Elaine -HFB- Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: furnishings and clothing don't come with the 'garanimal' tags for matching like they did when I was a kid. :) what are garanimal tags, i'm sure google would tell me where is the social interaction in that. as for the colour of perl shurely

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *what are garanimal tags, i'm sure google would tell me where is the social *interaction in that. http://www.garanimals.com/garanimals_history.htm Because fashion retardation starts early in life and, for many, never leaves :) *as for the colour of perl

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:36:31AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Ah! I just finished reading trought the entire list, and noted that no one here even remembered to mention a color for perl... =-] Maybe What is this word color that you keep using? Is it like

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Marna Gilligan
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: What is the Perl sex? is a better question to ask for the London Monks... Well, last month I think the answer was mainly hetro (if confused see http://marna.org/comic.gif) Not entirely hetero, by any stretch. I think I kissed as many girls as I did

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Ali Young
This time I have a camera! This time I will be talking to people about Perl. Failing that I'll sit in the corner and kill more braincells with beer and the EE Perl book. Besides, Leon is in Portugal and Matthew is partying in Cambridge *mope*. Ali

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 15:13, Greg McCarroll wrote: as for the colour of perl shurely its octarine wheter you are a pratchett fan or not. Which I suppose brings us back to the subject of sexing perl mongers. Perhaps a leaf out of the dwarves' method? Ie: very carefully and circumspectly. --

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Joshua Keroes
Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Well, to be honest, gay men know far more about decorating than I do as I only use white or beige paint on the walls of my house and my clothes are mostly all black so I can be sure they all match. Perl is black. That's how it always appears when I type it. :-) -J

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Jason Clifford
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Joshua Keroes wrote: Perl is black. Not so. It is multicoloured: shebang is purple; directives/function calls are orange variables are light blue quoted strings are red comments are navy blue Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Iain Tatch
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, 4:53:35 PM, Jason Clifford wrote: JC On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Joshua Keroes wrote: Perl is black. JC Not so. JC It is multicoloured: Close, but no cigar. JC shebang is purple; s/purple/green/ JC directives/function calls are orange s/orange/red/ JC variables are

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:43:48AM -0700, Joshua Keroes wrote: Perl is black. That's how it always appears when I type it. :-) Cure colourblindness by typing: :syntax on Toby. -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:58:09AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: [vi screendump] The syntax command is unknown. You didn't show the highlighting! That bit comes up as rev video on my screen. Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. -- Lusercop.net -

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Tim Sweetman
Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:58:09AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: [vi screendump] The syntax command is unknown. You didn't show the highlighting! That bit comes up as rev video on my screen. Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. M-x

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:48:19AM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: Lusercop wrote: Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. M-x identify-self-in-third-person-mode What's this M-x rubbish? :-) -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:48:19AM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: Lusercop wrote: Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi. Lusercop's original post was with sun vi. M-x identify-self-in-third-person-mode What's this M-x rubbish? Just take this red pill, labelled emacs.rpm. You'll soon

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Dominic Mitchell wrote: Lusercop wrote: What's this M-x rubbish? Just take this red pill, labelled emacs.rpm. You'll soon find out how deep the elisp hole really goes. What's that .rpm rubbish ?

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: Lusercop wrote: What's this M-x rubbish? Just take this red pill, labelled emacs.rpm. You'll soon find out how deep the elisp hole really goes. What's that .rpm rubbish ? Just take this red Hat, labelled

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:43:33AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: What's that .rpm rubbish ? Just take this red Hat, labelled rpm.rpm. You'll soon find out how deep the python hole really goes. What I'd like is debian.rpm In my dreams rpm -i

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: What I'd like is debian.rpm In my dreams rpm -i debian.rpm would upgrade your system to Debian. I suppose I better make it clear that I don't actually dream about this, or more accurately I rarely remember my dreams, and none

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Tim Sweetman
Nicholas Clark wrote: I suppose I better make it clear that I don't actually dream about this, or more accurately I rarely remember my dreams, and none have involved Linux distributions. I once dreamt of two of my tech coworkers. They were in a bookshop, putting copies of one of the dilbert books

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: I once dreamt of two of my tech coworkers. They were in a bookshop, putting copies of one of the dilbert books in the dust jackets of copies of a sensible-looking management textbook, and of them them was explaining how this was

Re: The Perl Color [and weird dreams]?

2003-06-06 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: I suppose I better make it clear that I don't actually dream about this, or more accurately I rarely remember my dreams, and none have involved Linux distributions. I once dreamt of two of my tech coworkers.

The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hello, Perl Fellows. I'm involved on a discussion about the color of perl at PerlMonks.org (some of you maybe had seen this before). I need some help, since the discussion is getting out of control... =-] See what this guys is saying about the Perl Camel.

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Dave Cross
From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/4/03 1:15:10 PM Hello, Perl Fellows. [ snip ] Maybe my perl brothers here have some comments on it. Luis, Is there any reason why you're not interested in the opinions of the women on this list? Dave... -- http://www.dave.org.uk

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *Because there are no perl nuns ? *(seems to me that a discussion with monks necessarily *involves brothers) I registered the domain 'perlnuns.org' a long time ago but it never really got going due to a decided lack of women and interest. It was

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *And if you're depicting oneself as a monk, this could be an avatari of *that awesome fellow of Robin Hood, (what's his name?), who prefers *beverages to prayers. Friar Tuck, as I recall :) You might be amused to know the original name for

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Ali Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *For some reason, I hadn't really put much thought into the fact that *monks implied a male-only group in that context. Cue rerun of Life of *Brian. * *I can't imagine wanting to join a for the girls Perl group, since I've *not met anyone in any Perlmongers

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Lusercop
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:11:41PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I registered the domain 'perlnuns.org' a long time ago but it never really got going due to a decided lack of women and interest. It was likely for the best though as perl

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:43:21PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: I'm guessing that it derives from the ASR = SDM thing, and the way in which sysadmins got called Monks as a result of that anagram. Anyone know this? How about the explanation it's simply a metaphor - monks are tirelessly dedicated to

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread michael
Besides, mongeress just sounds silly. and an etymological crime to boot! monger - O.E. mangere, from L. mango (gen. mangonis) dealer, trader, from Gk. manganon contrivance, means of enchantment. Used in comb. form in Eng. since at least 12c.; since 16c. chiefly with overtones of petty

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, michael wrote: Hmm good job were not Roman or we'd be perlmagno's So the Perl Mounger colour is Mango orange? Leon, I blame you. Mark. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://twoshortplanks.com/};

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Dave Cross wrote: From: Luis Campos de Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/4/03 1:15:10 PM Maybe my perl brothers here have some comments on it. Luis, Is there any reason why you're not interested in the opinions of the women on this list? Dear Dave I've wrote just brothers because in my

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:15:10AM -0300, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: I'm involved on a discussion about the color of perl Perlple? P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is who really knows? As falls Wichita so falls Wichita Falls. --