On my FreeNAS file server:

# find /etc /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f | xargs file | grep "Perl script" | wc -l
2
# find /etc /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f | xargs file | grep "Python script" | wc -l
2

Maybe not a fair comparison. :)

The expired Microsoft site license was the reason why every programming course had every flavor of Java. I took Perl because it wasn't Java, but the class got cancelled on the first day for not having enough students. Perl fell off my radar since then. The only reason I picked up Python was because I worked at Google for a while.

Actually, computer programming. Project management was what I did before I went back to school.

I had a roommate who left a squash inside a toaster oven on low heat overnight. The next morning I found it. The squash got carbonized (burned) all the way through, blackened and hard as a rock.

The last time I heard about Perl was in college ten years ago. I was taking Perl because it wasn't Java. The college couldn't afford to renew Microsoft site license for a few years, hence every programming course had every flavor of java: strong, black and hot. Long story short, the Perl class got cancelled.

I used to keep one for the Dell Coffee Cup Holder (tm). Newer computers don't have those anymore. I wonder why.

I though Perl got replaced by Python years ago.

I heard on the radio several years ago of some got who more prison time for raping a dog than molesting and/or killing a child. Since was talk radio with people calling in, animal right activists screaming that the guy should have gotten more prison time and concerned parents screamed that the guy should have gotten less prison time. Talk about screwing the pooch.

No surprise that the company crashed and burned when management was in a drunken stupor.

A company party that I didn't go to ended with the supervisors being shit-faced drunk, the vice president taking off his pants to dance on the table in fish net stockings, and one of the directors throwing money at the PR girls to get them to take off their clothes. That made for a fun highlight video at the monthly company meeting, as those who were drunk didn't remember a damn thing and were quite horrified to see themselves up on the screen.

I tried that with a woman one time. The worst that could happen, my friends told me, was that she would say no. Actually, no wasn't the end but the beginning. She started a harassment campaign that lasted ten years. O_o

I don't play office politics, but I do document everything. Something that several of my bosses found out the hard way when they tried to throw me under the bus. HR loves a paper trail.

FTFY

I've been working for the government for a year and my contract was extended for another year. The majority of the technical staff is white. Everyone starts work at 7:00AM and out the door at 3:30PM. Slackers find themselves on the unemployment line in a hurry regardless of their race.

The company drunks ran the company into the ground. I watched my stock shares go from $20 to $0.02 in two years.