0.02% of perl is my fault

[pne]

I just saw a journal entry of Léon Brocard's in which he says that 0.02% of perl is his fault, and giving the breakdown for all those who contributed at least 2 lines to the perl interpreter according to a script he found.

According to the results in that entry, I contributed 491+4 = 495 lines, or 0.02%, to the current version of perl.

I'm rather surprised that the number was that high; I wonder what my contributions were.

(I seem to recall submitting a bug about the Y2K testing code which got things wrong—looking for '19' being tacked to the end of a variable rather than onto the beginning IIRC—but other than that I'm not sure what I contributed.)

Comments

[yvi]

Hmmm, doesn't seem like anyone (else) I know is on that. But it's a cool idea.

[pauamma]

(I seem to recall submitting a bug about the Y2K testing code which got things wrong—looking for '19' being tacked to the end of a variable rather than onto the beginning IIRC—but other than that I'm not sure what I contributed.)

Speaking of which, this Google search (worksafe) makes me very sad.

[pne]

Wow. I hadn't expected that kind of to crop up now, nine years later. Srsly.

And now I wonder whether this search is worse or not.

(You'll probably find that on even more pages than a Google search shows, since this kind of error tends to crop up generated by JavaScript, which Googlebot probably doesn't parse.)

[pauamma]

Hmm, I don't know. Also, this hit from the 19109 search.