Off topic: lightbulb joke...

[mildside]

Q: How many Perl programmers/monks does it take to write the code to change a lightbulb?

My Answer:

10. One to write the code, and 9 to tell them they should have enabled warnings and 'use strict;'.

Any better/funnier answers welcome.

Cheers!

[atcroft]

I would suspect maybe you forgot about the one who points out there is already a module on CPAN for it as well, and maybe point them to a module like Acme::Lightbulb::Current or similar...

Update (Sun Aug 10 23:42 CDT 2003): Anyone else have perl jokes/perl humor to share? Just wondering, from some of the ones I've seen in the CB from time to time...

[graff]

I think what you mean here is that the answer is "None -- zero: the code is already written and freely available on CPAN".

Now, if the question is "how many perl programmers did it take to write that module?", the answer is probably "Most of them!"

[nimdokk]

Perl::Humour
There's a new micro version of Perl out

It's called Mini-Perl.

_{lame humour from my boss :-)}

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"Ex libris un peut de tout"

[halley]

I can only assume your boss is a fan of the late Minnie Pearl, a Grand Ole Opry regular who wore her fashionable hats with the sales tag still affixed. She'd call out her trademark greeting in a coarse shreik, "How-dee!"

Either that, or your boss needs to rethink that career as a comedian. Or I need to stop trying to read so hard into punchlines. Or both...

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[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

[perrin]

Are you aware that miniperl is a real thing? You have it on your system. It is used during the build process of perl.

[sauoq]

You also forgot about the one that benchmarks it, the one that golfs it, the two that rewrite it in OO and functional styles, and the last one who just complains that none of the others have written decent unit tests.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

[bsb]

Then there's the one complaining the poster didn't explain why he was changing the lightbulb in the first place. Maybe there's are better solutions to the bigger darkness problem...

[waswas-fng]

merlyn's column on screwing in lightbulbs is Here. He will tell you that Acme::Current is funnier than lightbulbs ever could be..

-Waswas

[didier]

Plagiarizing someone(?) the answer is 10:

One to change the lightbulb
and a programmer explaining binary numbers.

[chunlou]

According to recent experience, it takes one Abigail-II to write the code, one BrowserUk to explain why/how it works, 100+ others to chant it's good stuff.

[zakzebrowski]

Right on. :)

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Zak

[ybiC]

Not to pollute this thread with no-relation-to-Perl-whatsoever humor, but...

So the jumper cables walk into the bar.   After giving a long hard stare, the bartender says... "Well, I guess I'll serve you, but just don't start anything, ya hear?"

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So the slice of bread walks into the bar and orders a beer.   The bartender replies "Sorry pal, we don't serve food."

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So the perlmonk walks into the bar and starts telling the "string walks into the bar" joke, but comes to his senses in time to quit while he's behind.   {grin}

  cheers,
  ybiC

  striving toward Perl Adept
  (it's pronounced "why-bick")


_{Update: cosmetic formatting tweaks}

[mildside]

... then another one to write the web interface, and yet another one to re-write it using the CGI module.

Cheers!

[shenme]

... then another to point out that the new Python module claims it is "Perl lightbulb compatible".

[mildside]

... then another to point out that the new Python module claims it is "Perl lightbulb compatible".

Is that as opposed to being "Clear lightbulb compatible?" :)

Cheers!

[Elgon]

...and one more to point out that CGI.pm doesn't use strict.

Elgon

Please, if this node offends you, re-read it. Think for a bit. I am almost certainly not trying to offend you. Remember - Please never take anything I do or say seriously.

[particle]

why use CGI to generate HTML? use Template or HTML::Mason or HTML::Template instead.

~Particle *accelerates*

[greenFox]

I thought Real Perl Programmers ™ weren't afraid of the dark...

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

[BrowserUk]

...screw in a lightbulb....now there's adventurous for you.

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"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller
If I understand your problem, I can solve it! Of course, the same can be said for you.

[perrin]

You call that a spec?!

[artist]

atleast one expert to obfuscate it.. So and lightbulb will be changed but it won't be easy to find out how it is done.

[ellem]

String walks into a bar, bartender says we don't serve strings. String goes outside messes up his hair and bends himself around and goes back in.

"Hey aren't you that string I threw out a minute ago?"

"NO, I'm a frayed knot!"
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[e-mail]
There's more than one way to do it, but only some of them actually work.

[Anonymous Monk]

i think "im now a tie()'d string" might be more appropriate

[JPaul]

I got this from my brother at home while on holiday; He's 16 and I'm easily amused, so there you go.

Q: How many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. But the hard part is getting in.

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

[Mr. Muskrat]

Have you ever seen Perl strip tease?

[erebus]

Q: How many Perl programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Perl programmers don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs.

[sauoq]

Have you ever actually screwed in a hot tub? Screwing in a light bulb would probably be both easier and more comfortable. Despite their reputation, hot tubs are really only good for getting started.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

[monktim]

None. It's a hardware problem.

Yea I know it's an old joke, I couldn't resist.

[mildside]

None. It's a hardware problem.

Yea I know it's an old joke, I couldn't resist.

I'd have been disappointed if nobobody had contributed that one. I was expecting it to be one of the first replies - thanks for not disappointing me!

Cheers!

[leriksen]

scalar(@programmers)

[LukeyBoy]

One. Just don't ever, ever ask them to change it again.