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FWIW ... where 'nothing' may be a valid value.

A SOPW today (26 Nov 14, US EST) included a use info; which made me curious ...and which seems to lead to an ID on paco

perldoc info
NAME
    perlinfo - a command-line frontend to HTML::Perlinfo


#        [irrelevant details -- for the purposes of this post -- edite
+d out]

EXAMPLES
       perlinfo -i

       'Saved file perlinfo.html'

       perlinfo -i /home/paco/www/perl-info.html

       'Saved file /home/paco/www/perl-info.html'

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2009 by Mike Accardo

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Re^3: The First Ten Perl Monks
by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 27, 2014 at 04:18 UTC

    That's a very cool idea. Good work! I'm not sure this is much positive evidence, though: of ACCARDO's modules currently on CPAN, none date to earlier than 2003; it's possible (I'd say likely) that Accardo was influenced by perlmonks' paco, rather than the other way around. Also note that "paco" would be an unusual nickname for a Michael; it's usually a nickname for Pablo or Pasquale, I think, as well as Francisco -- or so they say. Not that that proves Accardo didn't adopt this username, of course...

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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      Also note that "paco" would be an unusual nickname for a Michael; it's usually a nickname for Pablo or Pasquale, I think, as well as Francisco
      Or perhaps "paco" is simply an abbreviation formed from the first two letters of a Christian name and a surname, for example, Paul Cohen ... which just happens to be the full name of SourceForge user paco!

      The SourceForge paco (Paul Cohen) appears to be an Eiffel programmer living in Sweden. So, perhaps paco is skiing to work as we discuss Him, listening to Abba on His headphones!

      A more likely alternative may be wikipedia user Paco, who seems to be a phenomenally versatile computer wizard, based on his profile. So, instead of skiing in Sweden, perhaps paco is sunning Himself on the banks of the Rio Grande, Mexico, just south of El Paso, Texas.

      Update: Given all the references to Hope College in this thread, and our fervent hope that paco will return, perhaps He is London-based software security expert paco hope, author of O'Reilly book Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security who once griped about Perl documentation and is referenced at PM in Perl Newbie and pacohope.

      Update: As a chess fan, today I noticed a new chess article A chat with Paco featuring Spain's top chess player Francisco ("Paco") Vallejo Pons. Maybe paco is this Spanish grandmaster, leaving an ingenious clue to his true identity by staying at Perl Monks for exactly 64 minutes - corresponding to the 64 squares on a chessboard.

      See also: Re: poll ideas quest 2016

      paco will return!

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Re^3: The First Ten Perl Monks
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 26, 2014 at 21:23 UTC
    Finally we'll learn what happend to the Lindbergh baby!

    Cheers Rolf

    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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      Woot! Are you suggesting that the Lindberg baby grew up to be paco?
       

      ++$anecdote ne $data


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        Yes, on Amelia Earhart's ranch in Paraguay.

        But I'm not allowed to reveal more.

        Cheers Rolf

        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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