It seems that every year, nerds find new, creative, (and occasionally bizarre) methods of proposing to their girlfriends. Somehow I missed this for the past 2 years, but geek love went to new levels in August of 2004. I present to you, the heart shaped perl code which spells out “kristen, will you marry me?” when run. Both the proposer and proposee are perl enthusiasts and grad students at Carnegie Mellon, where they were even caricatured by PhD comics (although Jorge Cham got one thing wrong – everyone knows perl isn’t compiled).

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