Nice

Kills what?

Yeah!

I'm sad a chance to reference OCaml was squandered.

Does Lemmy have a r/peterexplainsthejoke?

There's at least a couple of puns going on here. You may already know some of the following.

First of all, Perl is a programming language that has been around since the late '80s. It was designed as a system administrating, text processing glue language with aspects of shell scripting, awk, sed, the greps and a whole host of other things.

This is the first part of one of the puns. Perl was, and may still be, used as a filter in command line pipelines.

The other pun comes from the fact that perhaps the most important Perl book, Programming Perl was published by O'Reilly who generally put some sort of apparently unrelated animal on the cover of their titles. For Perl this was a camel.

Camel is, or was, a brand of cigarettes. Therefore this is the second pun. The pack of cigarettes has "Perl" where it should read "Camel" but still has the picture of a Camel, like both the book and the cigarettes.

Cigarattes, of course, often have filters on the mouth end of them, which completes the first pun. I do not know if any Camel cigarettes have these, but that's not strictly important. Some cigarettes do. Perl-branded Camels almost certainly would do.

The third (fourth?) pun, which may or may not be intended, is that some people think that programming in Perl is damaging to one's health.

Who are you and what did you do to pmjv ?

We lost the Fun trademark and now everything is going downhill.

It's only reading other people's perl that damages your health. Also your own perl if you forget writing it.

You didn't mention "20 FOSS Cigarettes." A typical pack of cigarettes is around 20, and FOSS stands for "Free (and) Open Source Software." This generally means that people can view, edit, distribute, and sometimes even sale programs they didn't themselves create. Many prominent FOSS projects use a fair bit of Perl code.

Eh it is only harmful like any spaghetti coded codebase. I had a job that we only programmed in perl.

Camel cigarettes do have filters. It's been a long time since I've last seen cigarettes without filter being sold.

@pmjv@horp.sciops.netall the hottest fossgirls smoke thesethank you for content, and the creatiom thereof

thanks for interacting from sklenice krtů

@pmjv@horp.sciops.netsklenice procesorových škrtů(ale furt je to x64, somehow)

also, using Perl is a difficult habit to break

Holy crap. Now that's the difference between Reddit and Lemmy. Thanks for the sincere response! :D

Came here to ask if this was some OCaml joke I didn't get

Eww

Camel is a cigarette brand too.

oh my god

Thank you for Smoking. Content.

Perl is damaging to one's health.

Moreso mental health, but extended use can cross that hurdle easily enough.

@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zipmore smoking fossgirls for the rest o' us, brother