LPM: Fwd: Coy.pm

[David Hempy]

>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:08:15 -0400
>From: Deanna Phillips <dphillips at ket.org>
>To: gcasillo at ket.org, dhempy at ket.org
>Subject: Coy.pm
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>From "A Report on the Open Source Convention" by Vicki Brown
>http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-09-1999/swol-09-osconf.html
>
>Damian Conway's award-winning paper really had people talking. "Coy -- Like 
>Carp
>only Prettier"
>documents a new Perl module which provides haiku error messages: 
>
>The Coy.pm
>module frames errors within
>synthetic haiku.
>
>This reduces the
>stress induced in the user
>when a program fails.
>
>Conway won the Larry Wall Award for Practical Perl Utility. According to Wall,
>"Poetry is practical." 
>
>-- 
>Deanna Phillips		Kentucky Educational Television		dphillips at ket.org
>"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
>-John Berger


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