Acme::DonMartin - For programs that are easy to dictate over the telephone

NAME

Acme::DonMartin - For programs that are easy to dictate over the telephone

VERSION

This document describes version 0.06 of Acme::DonMartin, released 2005-09-26.

SYNOPSIS

    use Acme::DonMartin;
    print "Hello world\n";

DESCRIPTION

Perl is a very difficult language to dictate over the phone. All those pesky punctuation characters and gruesome glyphs make it very laborious to speak out loud.

To compound the problem, most people can't even agree on what something as basic as # should be called, never mind some of the sillier symbols, like %, & and @. Some of the names for it (although by no means exhaustive) include:

     pound, pound sign, number sign, flash, hash, sharp,
     grid, crosshatch, octothorpe, square, pig-pen, hex,
     tictactoe, scratchmark, crunch, thud, thump, splat.

(I think with the last few variants that you can see where this is going).

The first time you run a program under Acme::DonMartin, your source code is magically transformed into Don Martin cartoon sound effects. The code continues to work as before, but now it looks like this:

   #! /usr/local/bin/perl

   use Acme::DonMartin;
   gashlikt ahweeeeee dipada fliff gahak dapada zap thwizzik
   gahork tik gark dakdik gleet skroook skronk chomple dig
   klooonn sloople tik fling splork gleet cook chook wiz
   bombah boomer poong glong shuka spatz

Now you can pick up the phone and dictate it to someone else and they can type it in to a computer and run it with much less chance of confusion or error.

This can also be construed as a security feature. It is expected that a hacker will be laughing too hard to be able to recover the source code.

DIAGNOSTICS

zownt thlip spoosh: Something weird happened.

BUGS

None known.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-acme-donmartin@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html.