Re: The sperm secret operator: is it new?

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:40:17AM +0100, Dmitry Karasik wrote:
> 
> > Does that mean I have a dirty mind?
> 
> At least not dirtier than the inventor of the =()= (unless that was you ;)

I think the first person using =()= (Randal?) is not the same as
the first person naming it in a Perl context. Both probably have been
invented independently, as goatse was a popular meme at some point, and
people collected references to it. It's not suprising that a minimalist
ascii-art version appeared. And that it looked like Perl code.

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