From 8b55b0284cb0f0f4e3a37ab37287c6441d6061d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Zsb=C3=A1n=20Ambrus?= Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:03:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [perl #90592] Porting/epigraphs.pod: add 5.14.0(-RC*) --- Porting/epigraphs.pod | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 92a66c1..f8c93d1 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,68 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.14.0 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> + +L + +At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please +myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and +impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says, +"That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing +gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch, +or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig. + +I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this +computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I +ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody +would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with +my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it +away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company +won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." + +So a freely distributable program is born. + +=head2 v5.14.0-RC3 - American Airlines Gate Agent, last call + +L + +This is the last call for flight 1697 with service to Chicago and +continuing service to San Francisco. All passengers should already be +aboard. If you aren't aboard at this time, you will be denied boarding +and your bags will be offloaded. + +=head2 v5.14.0-RC2 - Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, "the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" + +L + +Over the course of nearly two decades, Ford would spend tens of millions +of dollars founding not one but, after the plantation was defastated +by leaf blight, two American towns, complete with central squares, +sidewalks, indoor plumbing, hospitals, manicured lawns, movie theaters, +swimming pools, golf courses, and, of course, Model Ts and As rolling +down their paved streets. + +Back in America, newspapers kept up their drumbeat celebration, only +obliquely referencing reports that things were not progressing as the +company had hoped. But there was one note of skepticism. In late 1928, +the Washington Post ran an editorial that read in its entirety: "Ford will +govern a rubber plantation in Brazil larger than North Carolina. This is +the first time he has applied quantity production methods to trouble" + +=head2 v5.14.0-RC1 - Bill Bryson, "In a Sunburned Country" + +L + +But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On +my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight +reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, +wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, +Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into +the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. +This seemed doubly astounding to meE<0x2014>first that Australia could +just I a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of +this had never reached me. + =head2 v5.13.11 - Walt Whitman, L L -- 2.7.4