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Re^2: What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world? (OT: Humpty Dumpty)

by Anonymous Monk
on May 12, 2005 at 20:19 UTC ( [id://456534]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world?
in thread What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world?

Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

It doesn't :-) The notion of "Humpty Dumpty as an anthropomorphic egg was an invention of Lawrence Charles Dodson (writing under the pen name "Lewis Carrol"), in his famous book _Alice In Wonderland_.

As for the origin of the nursery rhyme, according to the following link, the rhyme was about a fallen cannon, which could not be raised back to it's firing wall during the English civil war.

See http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/humpty_dumpty.htm for more information.
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Re^3: What's the most important thing to learn in the Perl world? (OT: Humpty Dumpty)
by tlm (Prior) on May 14, 2005 at 12:12 UTC

    HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED

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