Quote #18

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)

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  1. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
  2. Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
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  4. Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses…
  5. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)
  6. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
  7. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
  8. The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors. :-)

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