i came here late, and i see a lot people have already gave you baggy
opinions and factoids. Still, blind and deaf can't tell you all about Perl.

Perl's gluing ability goes beyond computation, to people. To the poor and
have-nots. It unites people in the computing field who are not endowed with
fancy engaging brains. It is the sanctuary of dunces. The expressions of
those thoughtless. The godsend for brainless coders. The means and banner of
sys admins. The lingua franca of trial-and-error hackers. The song and dance
of stultified engineers.

I'm also a Perler. Share a secret with me: When you are cornered by
mathematicians or the like, who are about to speak lamba or something we
don't understand, what do you do? Of course, flip out the little Swiss Army
Knives in our pockets, and splutter #%$@ syntaxes that is equally abstruse,
and we feel safe and secure. Fuck geniuses in this world. Leave Perlers
along. Larry Wall for President. The three principal virtues of ...

You mentioned the surplus of Perl libraries? Say, CGI, LWP, WWW, HTML, DBI,
File::,...etc and etc and etc? Yes I _know_. I have serious experience
wallowing in this giant dung pile. Yes I KNOW! If you are in a cesspool for
long, you will forget about shit but start to enjoy swimming. It is
intriguing to say the least. You discover backstroke, develop efficiency in
freestyle, enjoys relaxed breast stroke, and even dabble and splash in
butterfly to impress your friends. You begin to be amazed by the wonders and
size of the pool, don't you? Me too, pal. Me tooo.

Our crony glauber <theglau...@my-deja.com> sayz:

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