A quick and dirty post featuring XKCD comics that involve Perl:
Saving the day with Regular Expressions
The universe is hacked together with Perl!
Mess with Perl!! It’s USEFUL!
If you are unfamiliar with XKCD, you should really head over there to kill some time… you won’t regret it. Also, be sure to stop by the XKCD store and pick up a Regex Cheat Skirt for yourself, or your girlfriend.
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XKCD has definitely gotten much worse recently, so focus on archive browsing instead of expecting any good new comics. Coincidentally, it seemed to start going bad about the time the author became one of those annoying ‘fomer Perl user’ Python people with comic #353 (“Perl, I’m leaving you”). In a perfect world that comic should have looked like this:Perl 5.10! (self link)
Also worth noting is what is missing from the t-shirt version of that “I know regular expressions” comic