What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. (Erik Naggum)

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

Erik Naggum

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