Re^2: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user?

How could I have forgotten Corwin of Amber? After all, he's mastered Pattern matching...

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Re^3: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 13, 2008 at 19:35 UTC
I could see Corwin learning a batch-processing language really well and perhaps awk, but Merlin is the one who knew just about every programming language worth knowing. He built his own theoretical computer, found a shadow where it would work, and wrote its expert system, remember?	[reply]
Re^4: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by apl (Monsignor) on Jun 13, 2008 at 19:39 UTC
Quite so, quite so! (I was going for the easy joke about patterns; if I could have thought of a wizard who enjoyed corned-beef hash, I'd have used that...) So now we just need to differentiate between Merlin{Camelot} and Merlin{Amber}. 8-)	[reply]
Re^5: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Jun 17, 2008 at 19:35 UTC
Don't forget Merlin{Stargate: SG-1}.	[reply]
Re^3: Of the following Wizardly beings, which is most likely to be a regular Perl user? by pajout (Curate) on Jun 18, 2008 at 07:10 UTC
Of course, and Merlin{Amber} mastered Chaos strolling...	[reply]

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