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Comment by Supermancho

> There was no such pressure. That's ridiculous.

I lived it. I'm sure there's still some Mailing List archives and IRC snippets that still endure, demonstrating the utter vicious 1-upmanship of how to do something in Perl as succinctly as possible. Why do X and Y when you can just do Z? What are you really trying to do? etc.

parent Supermancho 11 months ago

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