Quote #122
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
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- If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
- And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.