>How about the traditional birthstone for the 6th month (June)? That would
>be Alexandrite. This has the added advantage of being named after Tsar
>Alexander I, who, like Perl, was ruler over a vast domain.
Ha ha ha, obscure pun
http://www.birthstones.com/stone_jun.html
However come perl 7 (if Larry's RFC for 2*PI were broken) that would be Ruby,
which might cause some confusion since their is a language called ruby that
professes to be Perl-like.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby/?highlight=ruby
What about Hexane? Arthropod (or some insect)?
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -nl
BEGIN{($,,$0)=("\040",21);@F=(sub{tr[a-zA-Z][n-za-mN-ZA-M];print;});
$_="Gnxr 1-3 ng n gvzr, gur ynfg bar vf cbvfba.";&{$F[0]};sub t{*t=sub{};
return if rand()<.5;$_="Vg'f abg lbhe ghea lrg, abj tb.";&{$F[0]};$_=0;}
sub v{print map sprintf('%c', 2**7-2**2),(1 .. $0);}&v;}{$_++;$_--;$_||=4;
if($_>>2||($_<<2>12)){$_="Vainyvq ragel";&{$F[0]};last;}&t;$0-=$_;$_="Lbh jva";
die(&{$F[0]}) if !($0-1);$0-=$0%2?$0>2?2:1:$0<=5?$0>2?3:1:rand>.5?1:3;
$_="V jva";die(&{$F[0]}) if !($0-1>1);}&v __END__ http://pthbb.org/
MOTD on Pungenday, the 1st of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3166:
"Bite the wax tadpole." --Coca-Cola as originally translated into Chinese
