@mint @Inginsub
>the NSA Perl manifesto
this is also probably just a real thing that exists
> Marjorie: Who is using Perl and how are they using it?
> Larry: A couple of years ago, I ran into someone at a trade show who was representing the NSA (National Security Agency). He mentioned to someone else in passing that he'd written a filter program in Perl, so without telling him who I was, I asked him if I could tell people that the NSA uses Perl. His response was, “Doesn't everyone?” So now I don't tell people the NSA uses Perl. I merely tell people the NSA thinks everyone uses Perl. They should know, after all.
> As an interesting side note, it turned out this fellow was the very administrator who shut down the NSA project Perl was (indirectly) written to support. He was vaguely amused when I pointed out Perl might well be the most enduring legacy of the project.