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<h3>Yep, the gods granted me [id://449641|a name change].</h3>
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<p>Now I will know what feature-wannabe <b>Joshua Bug</b> went through:</p>
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<font size=+2><b>Norfolk Howard,</b> <em>n.</em></font><br/>
<em>colloq.</em> Now <em>hist.</em></p>
<p>[< the name <em>Norfolk Howard</em>, appearing in an advertisement in the <em>Times</em> of 26 June 1862 claiming to be a declaration by a man named Joshua Bug that he had assumed the name of Norfolk Howard; perh. a play on BUG <em>n.</em><small><sup>1</sup></small> 1b.]</p>
<p><font size =+1><b>A bug,</b> <em>esp.</em> <b>a bed-bug.</b></font></p>
<small><p><b>1864</b> <u>J. C. HOTTEN</u> <em>Slang Dict.</em> (new ed.), <em>Norfolk-Howards,</em> bugs; a person named Bug having lately adopted the more aristocratic appellation of Norfolk Howard. <b>1870</b> <em>Figaro</em> 19 Oct. (Farmer section), Those entomological pests that are euphemistically called Norfolk Howards. <b>1888</b> <u>J. A. LEES</u> & W. J. CLUTTERBUCK <em>B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia</em> xxii, In one bag the Norfolk Howards, In one bag the fleas, the Jumpers. <b>1942</b> C. MORLEY <em>Thorofare</em> lx. 355 If you must allude to parasites I wish you'd call them norfolk-howards. <b>1995</b> <em>Independent</em> (Nexis) 15 May 17 Everyone thought that the instant social mobility was so funny that they decided to use the name Norfolk-Howard as a slang name for bug or beetle.</p></small>
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<p align=right>OED</p>
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There are rumours that perl has initially really just been an experiment to prove that a program can be written only by using the preprocessor. It eventually failed and that's the reason why you'll occasionally find a few lines of C code sprinkled in between the preprocessor directives.
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<p align=right><em><b>Tassilo v. Parseval</b><br>
[http://tinyurl.com/6uujq|<c6em52$avdtc$1@ID-231055.news.uni-berlin.de>]
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<code>
sub configuration {
my %options = @_;
print "Maximum verbosity.\n" if $options{VERBOSE} == 9;
}
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if ($something_went_awry) {
return if defined wantarray; # good, not void context.
die "Pay attention to my error, you danglesocket!!!\n";
}
</code>
<p align=right><em><b>Programming Perl 3rd ed.</b><br>
Wall, Christiansen & Orwant</em></p>
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Tell you what. Let's just issue a mandatory warning at the startup of every Perl script that says: "Don't be stupid."</p>
<p align=right>Larry Wall</p>
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