alt Hacker NewsFigure 6 represents the string “gggijgziifiiffif”, which by pure coincidence happens to accurately represent the authors’ verbal reaction upon learning that “unquoted strings” were a feature intentionally included in the Perl language
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lta • yesterday at 11:59 PM
I'm afraid I have to tell you you lack the soul of a poet to truly appreciate the brilliant design . Perl is magic (like litteraly). I'm fairly sure it's one of the untold inspiration of the Harry Potter books
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There is a gem in the footnote right below gggijgziifiiffif, where it says it's possible to make a perl error quine by writing this line to the right location:
I just tried this perl 5.42.0, and any file name starting with a '/' will work.See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202182
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576872
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/48394