[KULUA] Perl Puzzles -- a challenge for Perl mongers

[Mike Coleman]

"L. Adrian Griffis" <adrian at nerds.org> writes:
> On 6 Jun 2001, Mike Coleman wrote:
> > "Stephen D. Spencer" <kulua at boneyard.lawrence.ks.us> writes:
> > > If you wish to see python become more prevalent in the "industry", do so
> > > through action rather than trying to do so through pendantry.
> > 
> > I've been trying to kick my pendantry habit, but it just keeps hanging
> > around.  :-)
> 
> Don't kick that habit.  Cultivate it.  Exactness is critical to good
> programming.

Thanks.  But,

               Main Entry: pen·dant
               Variant(s): also pen·dent /'pen-d&nt; 3 and 4
               are also 'pe-n&nt, 5 is also pän-dän/
               Function: noun
               Etymology: Middle English pendaunt, from Middle
               French pendant, from present participle of pendre to
               hang, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin pendere, from
               Latin pendEre; akin to Latin pendere to weigh,
               estimate, pay, pondus weight
               Date: 14th century
               1 : something suspended: as a : an ornament (as on a
               necklace) allowed to hang free b : an electrical fixture
               suspended from the ceiling
               2 : a hanging ornament of roofs or ceilings much used
               in the later styles of Gothic architecture
               3 : a length of line usually used as a connector on a
               boat or ship; especially : a short rope hanging from a
               spar and having at its free end a block or spliced
               thimble
               4 chiefly British : PENNANT 1a
               5 a : COMPANION PIECE b : something secondary or
               supplementary 
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