“Dan Smith: I've tried (in vi) 'g/[ a-z] \n[ a-z]/s//_/'…but that doesn't cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
Larry Wall: In the first pass, install perl.”

—  Larry Wall

[6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

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