99.99% high school seniors can't read Perl

Forum: water cooler
Topic: 99.99% high school seniors can't read Perl
started by: WDef

Posted by WDef on Nov. 18 2007,02:54

Couldn't sleep early this morning, had a good laugh when I read this:

< Test shows 99.99% of high school seniors can't read Perl >

And these, by the same satirist Brian Briggs:

< Microsoft purchases evil from Satan for $2.7b >

< Google using privacy data to build clones >

< RIAA making big donation to SETI; hopes to sue aliens >

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"... it is likely that an alien civilization is picking up our broadcasts. "If they're picking up a broadcast then they are probably recording the songs and sharing them illegally. Copyright laws don't end at the edge of the solar system."

< Turing test proves 2-year olds not human >

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" .. The non-human kept writing gibberish, if they wrote anything at all. It was as if someone was just banging on the keyboard with tiny little fists."

< God creates universe in 7 days; Perl Gods not impressed >

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Kosman continued, "And 'Hey, God!?' there's a MODULE for assembling nucleic proteins and amino acids. Try 'Use Biology::DNA'. These amateurs always try to re-invent the wheel. And that platypus... could only be the result of unorganized spaghetti code. Next time try running your code with '-w' and 'use strict'. Then that sort of stuff won't happen.

Probably old to some but I hadn't seen this site before. More of this enlightened nonsense on the BBSpot site eg < http://www.bbspot.com/archives/index_tech.html >

Posted by jpeters on Nov. 18 2007,17:33

Cute!!

Posted by stupid_idiot on Nov. 23 2007,13:50