{"id":8406,"date":"2005-01-03T02:58:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T00:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/03\/hmm\/"},"modified":"2005-04-18T00:59:25","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T21:59:25","slug":"hmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/03\/hmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of computer geeks love Star Wars. At least those that I have seen on the web (Slashdot<\/a>, etc). Now I am really getting interested if my starting to use pack()<\/code> and unpack()<\/code> in Perl yesterday has anything to do with me watching three episodes of Star Wars in like two days…<\/p>\n

I should keep an eye on this trend.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Most of computer geeks love Star Wars. At least those that I have seen on the web (Slashdot, etc). Now I am really getting interested if my starting to use pack() and unpack() in Perl yesterday has anything to do with me watching three episodes of Star Wars in like two days… I should keep … Continue reading Hmm…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[36,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-perl","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7961,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/26\/php-in-contrast-to-perl\/","url_meta":{"origin":8406,"position":0},"title":"PHP IN CONTRAST TO PERL","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There are plenty of holy wars on the web that argue about superiority of PHP over Perl and vice versa. 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