Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 04:02 pm

gswork@mailcity.com writes:

> "a thousand monkeys typing random letters at 100 characters per minute
> would very likely type the word "banana" within 6 weeks."
> 
> what they didn't mention was that, intriguingly, it only takes few
> monkeys feverishly hitting the keyboard and making generous but
> unpredictable use of the shift key to immediately start producing
> functioning perl code!

There was an image floating around not too long ago that was a screen
grab from THE MATRIX.  Had Cypher (?) sitting in front of that Matrix
monitor saying to Neo, "Oh, that's not encryption...it's a new perl
script that I'm working on..."

(That said, I LOVE perl!!!)
((But I do find I tend to comment nearly every line.))

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