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Well I can understand why Scotty seems so trendy here. However my vote is for Bones McCoy all the way: too funny with his continuous fights with Mr. Spock! And just not to boldly forget: he's dead Jim!

BTW: ++ for the poll, I was hoping for more Star Trek stuff @ PM. I had begun with some random Klingon programming tips:

I think it's clear enough it's only because of cutural circumstances: most programming languages were born in English speaking countries. I bet Klingon ones are strongly imperative! Klingon geeks despise event driven petaQ: they drive events, not the other way round. And their programs don't have loops. They aim straight to the heart: they often kill and rarely die, but when they do, it's with honour.

Now, I wonder if anyone has ever seen the full Klingon Perl programmer code! (As in "law", not as in "stuff programmers write".)

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Re^2: My favorite crew member from the original Star Trek:
by hangon (Deacon) on Aug 21, 2007 at 05:44 UTC

    This makes me wonder what a Klingon distribution of Perl would look like. First, it would probably be called something like Battle Perl.

    • Certainly functions like exec, chop, chomp, kill, split would take on new definitions.
    • Some functions would probably be renamed, ie seek would become hunt
    • Others such as sleep may disappear altogether

    As for die it could only have two possible arguments:

    die ('without honor');
# exits quietly after deleting its own source code

die ('with honor');
# forcibly terminates process after wreaking havoc with OS and hardwar
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Re^2: My favorite crew member from the original Star Trek:
by dewey (Pilgrim) on Aug 20, 2007 at 14:56 UTC
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Re^2: My favorite crew member from the original Star Trek:
by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 21, 2007 at 02:52 UTC
    What about "Damnit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not a Perl programmer." ;)

    Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars.

    I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

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      That is gonna end up in my .sig's!

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Re^2: My favorite crew member from the original Star Trek:
by TStanley (Canon) on Aug 20, 2007 at 23:57 UTC
    Here you go

    TStanley
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    People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell
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      One possibility that nobody seems to have mentioned yet is:

      My bat'leth is the best debugging tool.

      (Although an entry in the list at the link you pointed me to explicitly ruled out debugging at all.)

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