From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T13:58:18+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion

On Monday 04 August 2008 22:58:36 Clifford Heath wrote:

> I'm not familiar with Acme::...

For what it's worth, this isn't really about Acme, it's just the best example 
I could think of for Lingua, which can munge syntax (somewhat).

Acme is actually a Perl library for "fun" stuff, most of which is just silly, 
but sometimes, they do sort of serve as an example of whatever they're 
demonstrating. The two that I've noticed:

Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl -- you can write Perl in the Pirate language
Acme::POE::Knee -- ponie races written for POE, the Perl Object Environment 
(similar, I'd guess, to eventmachine)

Of course, you'll find all sorts of stuff. Usually high quality, 
well-documented, and mostly useless:

    use Acme::Drunk;

    my $bac = drunk(
                    gender         => MALE, # or FEMALE
                    hours          => 2,    # since start of binge
                    body_weight    => 160,  # in lbs
                    alcohol_weight => 3,    # oz of alcohol
                   );

   $bac >= 0.08 ? call_cab() : walk_home();