Talk:Black Perl

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As far as I know this poem was not written by Larry Wall. The mail that it came out in states, and i quote.

"A person who wishes to remain anonymous wrote the following example of "Black Perl". (The Pearl poet would have been shocked, no doubt.)"

Please correct me if Im wronge


 * Larry wrote it... and used that phony cover so that people would wonder. He's admitted this in public many times. --Randal L. Schwartz 18:44, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Execution
So what does the programme do when you run it?--ospalh (talk) 09:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * exit. 139.174.58.193 (talk) 14:41, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * shouldn't the article reflect this? I think the beauty of this piece (and maybe its significance also, is that it is not distinguishable from 'common' poems, yet it is syntactically correct (in Perl 3). The fact that it will not parse under Perl 5 is just of secondary interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.172.148.119 (talk) 10:21, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Significance
Could we get a bit of context for this page? Why is this bit of poetry important, esp. outside the Perl community? I'm not questioning whether it is important--I'm sure it is. I would just like somebody to frame this better for outsiders who might get linked here. Tarheelcoxn (talk) 17:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

syntax highlighting
This would be helpful for people who are unfamiliar with perl. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.89.71.42 (talk) 09:31, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Removed misattribution & unverified claims
I've removed Larry's signature from the body of the poem as well as text in the article claiming that he wrote it. According to Programming Perl 3rd ed., neither of these appear to be true and the author is not known. The cited source did not appear to back this up, either. The specific lines in IRC were "funny thing is, I'm not allowed to just go in and say "I wrote it" and "In a sense everything on wikipedia has to be hearsay. :)". Neither of these, to me, are conclusive.

The sentence that claimed that the headers were forged was also removed, as there is no evidence for it. The book includes a set of headers that were sent with the comp.lang.perl message, and to me, the only thing that appears out of place is that the message has a datestamp of exactly midnight on April 1st, 1990 (what are the odds of that?). 50.201.183.98 (talk) 18:13, 16 August 2017 (UTC)