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Damien has done crazier stuff; I heard a conference talk and thought "Like seeing Cthulhu, it might be something human minds can't handle!".

Conway has written Parse::RecDescent, the eminent "Best Practices" book (which imho should be mandatory reading for Perl programmers). And so on.

The guy is incredible.

Edit: Updated for clarity. On consideration -- he has done other things, equally crazy. But probably not crazier. :-) Most famous is probably http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach/

Hey, if you can't have fun, go join some language community that always vote up language war insults on other communities...



At YAPC 2001 (Montréal), he introduced programming in Klingon. (Yes, it really worked.)

As I recall, it tended to emphasis imperative constructs.




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