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My two favourite Perl April Fools (taken from [id://540609]) are:</P>
<P><B>Black Perl (Larry Wall, 1990)</B></P>
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It has come to my attention that there is a crying need for a place for
people to express both their emotional and technical natures simultaneously.
Several people have sent me some items which don't fit into any newsgroup.
Perhaps it's because I recently posted to both comp.lang.perl and to
rec.arts.poems, but people seem to be writing poems in Perl, and they're
asking me where they should post them.
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<small>-- Larry Wall requests the formation of
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/c3acca124e67b446?dmode=source&hl=en">a new comp.lang.perl.poems newsgroup</a>
</small>
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<P><B>Parrot (Simon Cozens, 2001)</B></P>
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Today brought the official announcement that many of us in the Perl and Python
communities had been awaiting and expecting for some time now: the culmination
of the year-long collaboration between Larry Wall and Guido van Rossum, and
the establishment of a period of joint development between the developers of
Perl and Python.
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<small>-- Simon Cozens announces
<a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm">Parrot</a>, April 1, 2001
</small>
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I was especially tickled by this Parrot code sample:
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<CODE>
# copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with #
while left_angle_right_angle:
if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#":
continue_next;
}
print dollar_underscore;
}
</CODE>
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<P><B>Perl April Fools Timeline</B></P>
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<li> 1990: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/c3acca124e67b446?dmode=source&hl=en">Black Perl</a> (Larry Wall).
<li> 1993: <a href="http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl.html">Haskerl</a> (Will Partain).
<li> 1995: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl/browse_thread/thread/2e3f00b5fd76f643">Pre cursor to merlyn's sh2perl</a> (Michael Roby).
<li> 1997: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.modules/msg/21d65ae85db69dee?dmode=source&hl=en">Perl 6 released</a> (John Macdonald).
<li> 1998: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.announce/msg/58d30d5705fcbe90?dmode=source&hl=en">sh2perl</a> ([merlyn]).
<li> 1999: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.modules/msg/b6fe64a3808ed796?dmode=source&hl=en">sh2perl Y2K update</a> ([merlyn]).
<li> 1999: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Semi-Semicolons/">Semi::Semicolons</a> (schwern, ziggy, the lovely David Adler esq.).
<li> 1999: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/9e32407c56972319?dmode=source&hl=en">Java Mongers</a> ([brian_d_foy]).
<li> 2001: <a href="http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/31/206248">use.perl.org Parrot April Fools 2001</a> (Simon Cozens). <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/parrotstory_0401.html">The Story behind the Parrot prank</a>. <a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/28/1742237&tid=156">Parrot on slashdot</a>.
<li> 2001: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Bleach/">Acme::Bleach</a> ([TheDamian]), <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Buffy/">Acme::Buffy</a> (Leon "acme" Brocard).
<li> 2001: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/899020eeefe682f2?dmode=source&hl=en">clpm: where can I get a free perl interpreter?</a> (Michael Farragher).
<li> 2002: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/5015bb183e15ef8d?dmode=source&hl=en">CJAN</a> (HFB).
<li> 2003: <a href="http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1224229&mode=thread&tid=32">Matt Wright buys out CPAN</a> (Jasvir Nagra).
<li> 2006: <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/24898">"Larry" replaces $ with euro for Perl 6</a> (spoofed to appear to be from Larry Wall).
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