[OT] Perl Question

[Ben Pfaff]

Edward Glowacki <glowack2@key-largo.cl.msu.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> > Hmmm... maybe I should move my plans to learn perl up a little; any language
> > where you can threaten the computer with death for not following a command
> > has GOT to be an OK language!
> Rofl!!!

I once provoked quite an interesting discussion with an
anthropology professor of my acquaintance by pulling down a
window menu in X and selecting `kill'.  I'd never thought about
it, but that sort of thing describes a metaphor that's apparently
non-obvious to non-"computer people".