What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a … - Erik Naggum

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

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Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.

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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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