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I voted vroom because merlyn isn't an onomatope.
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Re: My favorite Perl-related onomatope is...
by been42 (Curate) on Apr 07, 2004 at 15:30 UTC
    Maybe we just haven't yet discovered whatever it is that makes the sound 'merlyn'.

    It's entirely possible that if we had microphones sensitive enough to pick up the hum of electricity running through RAM, we would hear 'merlyn' when a Schwartzian Transform is executed. Perhaps that's its secret.