OT: Perl programmers?

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Aahz Maruch || Fri 08 Feb 2002 03:52:02p:

> In article <tbf14a.ep7.ln at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>,
> Keith Keller <kkeller at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>
>>Aahz, are you sorry you asked yet?  :)
> 
> Not really.  Someone referred to "Perlies" in an e-mail to me (which I
> actually misread as "Perlers", because I'd heard that term before), and
> when I asked another Perl programmer of my acquaintance, zie didn't much
> care for "Perlers" (and had never heard of it, to boot).  So between all
> the responses I've received in public and private, I think I'll stick
> with "Perl programmers".

Maybe shortened to Perlpro(s)? That sounds respectful and short, though 
probably silly. (Add pypro, forpro, cpro, japro, adepro, etc :)

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