poem
VSarkiss
Any self-respecting monastery needs a prayer book. I've seen several references to "Hail Larry" on this site, but never seen the text.
<p>So here's my own contribution, the "Our Larry"<sup>1</sup>. Say this over a rosary before beginning any big project.
<br><p><i>Our Larry, who art in CPAN,<br>
Obfuscated be thy name.<br>
Thy code compile,<br>
Thy refs be blessed,<br>
In <code>eval</code> as it is in <code>-e</code>.<br>
Give us this day our debugger.<br>
And forgive us our syntax errors<br>
As we forgive those who do not <code>use strict</code> and <code>-w</code>.<br>
And lead us not into tainted code,<br>
But deliver us from <code>malloc</code>.<br><br>
For thine is the laziness,<br>
And the impatience,<br>
And the hubris,<br>
<code>while 1</code></i>.
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<small><sup>1</sup>Fellow Christians, please take this in the spirit it was intended: a joke.</small>