SPUG: Stick Riddle

[Asim Jalis]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:38:42AM -0800, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> m3047 at inwa.net (Fred Morris) writes:
> > What I've witnessed, following this whole thread is true
> > reverse engineering: i.e., given a poorly specified problem
> > and an undocumented solution, an attempt to determine what
> > djinn the original problem solver was listening to; my gut
> > tells me Michael has found it.
> 
> I found it!  I found it!! 
> 
> Since you mention the djinn, perhaps I've even found GOD,
> which, according to Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 Pulitzer-Prize
> winning "Goedel, Escher, Bach" is a recursive acronym for God
> Of Djinn.  How 'bout that?  God reflected in a Perl script!
> It's fractals all the way down, and all the way up.

God, as we all know, is the invisible sigil. This is discussed in
excruciating detail in the Lost Perldocs. To read up on this take
a look at "perldoc perllost". Hopefully they have been found by
now. 


Asim

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