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

—  Larry Wall

&quot;Perl, the First Postmodern Computer Language&quot;, perl.com, 1999-03-09 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/03/pm.html#jump5 <br class="br">Other

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