Once upon a time Trurl the constructor built an eight-story thinking
  machine.  When it was finished, he gave it a coat of white paint,
  trimmed the edges in lavender, stepped back, squinted, then added a
  little curlicue on the front and, where one might imagine the forehead
  to be, a few pale orange polkadots.  Extremely pleased with himself,
  he whistled an air and, as is always done on suh occasions, asked it
  the ritual question of how much is two plus two.

  The machine stirred.  Its tubes began to glow, its coils warmed up,
  current coursed through all its circuits like a waterfall,
  transformers hummed and throbbed, there was a clanging, and a
  chugging, and such an ungodly racket that Trurl began to think of
  adding a special mentation muffler.  Meanwhile the machine labored on,
  as if it had been given the most difficult problem in the Universe to
  solve; the ground shook, the sand slid underfoot from the vibration,
  valves popped like champagne corks, the relays nearly gave way under
  the strain.  At last, when Trurl had grown extremely impatient, the
  machine ground to a halt and said in a voice like thunder: SEVEN!

    -- Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, Trurl's Machine

We are happy to announce Perl 5.16.2, the third stable release of Perl
5.16.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.16.2 from your favorite CPAN
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