In a thread in comp.lang.perl.misc titled
"So what do YOU use Perl for?", Gwyn Judd suggested:
I use it to impress women.Around 1993 or 1994 I started dating a woman who was a quilter. After seeing a lot of quilts and pictures of quilts, it seemed to me that most quilters stuck to a few traditional quilt blocks and that there might be a lot of quilt blocks that were rarely used.
I wrote a suite of Perl programs to generate all the quilt blocks of a certain type (sixteen-patch half-square triangles with 90-degree rotational symmetry) and I printed out the result.
I was delighted, because the results confirmed my suspicion: There are a lot of excellent but rarely-seen quilt blocks.
I was even more delighted when we got married, and she made the program output into a real quilt and gave it to me as a wedding present.
She must have been impressed.
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Re: Impress Women
by koolade (Pilgrim) on Apr 13, 2001 at 18:45 UTC | |
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 13, 2001 at 18:50 UTC | |
by vroom (His Eminence) on Apr 14, 2001 at 02:27 UTC | |
by one4k4 (Hermit) on Apr 13, 2001 at 21:44 UTC | |
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 26, 2001 at 08:16 UTC | |
Re: Impress Women
by virtualsue (Vicar) on Apr 14, 2001 at 02:08 UTC | |
by dws (Chancellor) on Apr 14, 2001 at 02:10 UTC | |
by delegatrix (Scribe) on Apr 17, 2001 at 00:43 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 11, 2003 at 17:41 UTC | |
(redmist) Re: Impress Women
by redmist (Deacon) on Apr 13, 2001 at 07:11 UTC | |
by Dominus (Parson) on Apr 13, 2001 at 20:52 UTC | |
Re: Impress Women
by defyance (Curate) on Mar 14, 2002 at 01:25 UTC | |
Re: Impress Women
by tinita (Parson) on Jul 08, 2008 at 18:41 UTC | |
Re: Impress Women
by vrk (Chaplain) on Jul 08, 2008 at 19:34 UTC |
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