Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not exactly sure. I've got that somewhere in my lecture notes from last
> winter, but according to Clem Cole, the only unix command that is not an
> acronym of some sort is biff, which was named after a dog.
Some counterexamples:
yes, echo, print, less, cut, find, shutdown, halt, kill, who am i.
But there aren't too many. Actually, it is a well known fact that
Perl's popularity as a scripting language (as opposed to scripting in
the One True Shell -- the Bourne shell) is largely due to the fact
that the multiplicity of English keywords in Perl's grammer makes Perl
a far more suitable language for writing poetry... (-:
--kevin
--
#!/usr/bin/perl
Unknown_Parcel:
("by JAPH");
package Delivery;
Hmmmm...Delivery? Perhaps: cookies or cakes or crumpets with icing...
I pause - open the door and close it,
open it and close again while deciding;
untie %parcel, quickly, with anxious fingers...
reading the misspelled writing;
use less caution;
no less urgency;
import scissors;
chop, chop...snip, snip;
no less untied; /ARGH! I need to open this package *right now*!/;
This Delivery's quite weighty.
My suspicions heighten and alarm bells ring in...my $head;
I'm dead
if the Unabomber sent this parcel.
(he can pack (a, pipe( bomb, good )));
But curiosity gets the better of me, so I open the parcel
_with_my_bare_teeth_;
chomp, chomp, warn me or kill me, chomp, write an epitaph, chomp, chomp;
bless death, when it comes, I always say;
accept fate, contentedly if not happily, since we all live or die in the end;
listen ( to, me ); study or die -
the
__END__
is nigh.
** BOOM **
:-(
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