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− | In the comic however, the rapper tries to solve his problems with | + | In the comic however, the rapper tries to solve his problems with Perl’s regular expressions, and ends up only creating another problem for himself, which is a reference to a [http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 famous quote by Jamie Zawinski]: “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” |
− | + | “program --help” is a common way, originating with the GNU project, to ask a program to show documentation on its usage and supported parameters; which, for some program, could include a “-z” command-line argument (“flag”). In this case, it is just an obvious play on the rapper’s name. [http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/projects/lp/doc/jay/package-summary.html '''jay'''] is also an actual C program that is a compiler-compiler for java. | |
This sort of problematically recursive [[:Category:Self-reference|self-reference]] is reminiscent of comic [[927: Standards]], and [[1739: Fixing Problems]]. | This sort of problematically recursive [[:Category:Self-reference|self-reference]] is reminiscent of comic [[927: Standards]], and [[1739: Fixing Problems]]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Man with sunglasses talking | + | :[Man with sunglasses and Cueball talking.] |
:Sunglasses: If you're havin' perl problems I feel bad for you, son- | :Sunglasses: If you're havin' perl problems I feel bad for you, son- | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
+ | [[Category:Perl]] | ||
[[Category:Music]] | [[Category:Music]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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