When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? - Larry Wall

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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

Larry Wall

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About Larry Wall

Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

Alternative Names: TimToady • Larry Arnold Wall

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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.

> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.