A page from the PM book of prayer

[VSarkiss]

Any self-respecting monastery needs a prayer book. I've seen several references to "Hail Larry" on this site, but never seen the text.

So here's my own contribution, the "Our Larry"¹. Say this over a rosary before beginning any big project.

Our Larry, who art in CPAN,
Obfuscated be thy name.
Thy code compile,
Thy refs be blessed,
In eval as it is in -e.
Give us this day our debugger.
And forgive us our syntax errors
As we forgive those who do not use strict and -w.
And lead us not into tainted code,
But deliver us from malloc.

For thine is the laziness,
And the impatience,
And the hubris,
while 1.

¹Fellow Christians, please take this in the spirit it was intended: a joke.

[srawls]

++, very witty and clever. Good job!

P.S. don't worry, as a Christian, I took no offense.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

[John M. Dlugosz]

Very clever!

You need a better symbol/totem than a rosary though. What would a Perl Programmer or Geek use?

—John

[Zaxo]

I suggest a totem both ancient and steeped in tradition: An APL typeball.

After Compline,
Zaxo

[John M. Dlugosz]

Too ancient for me—I've never seen one. My current figet/meditation toy is Silly Putty™. Somehow that's not very reverent, though.

[Tiefling]

How about a prayer wheel? More appropriate to some of the Bhuddhist monk imagery we've got, looks like an old printer component, and can double as a foo counter. :-)

And by the bye:

...Through gates of Perl streams in the countless host...

Tiefling



-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GAT d++ s:- a-- C++ UL P++ L++(+) E? W+(++) N+ o? K w+(--)
!O M- V? PS+ PE- Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R+++ tv- b+++ DI++++ D+ G+ e++ h!(-) y
+?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

[John M. Dlugosz]

Hmm, I supposed we could make something. Decorate it with APL "runes" and put FOO MANE PADME HUM around the circumference.

Camel "prayer flags" would work, too.

—John

[Anonymous Monk]

D'uh, the O'Reilly book. =D

[Anonymous Monk]

That's the problem. When you make a joke out of something sacred as if there were nothing else to joke about in this world. I guess that's why you felt you had to add your disclaimer at the end.

[Anonymous Monk]

If you are offended by "jokes out of something sacred", why are you even at a web site named "Perl Monks"?