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i had pictured something elegant like Lisp. but no it was just hacked together in Perl? Somebody needs to link to the famous XKCD strip. :)

You mean this one? :)

On a similar topic, A God's Lament http://xkcd.com/312/

Interestingly, a search for "ostensibly xkcd" shows the comic in the first link: