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by diekhans 1580 days ago
I stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language" wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*.

Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now.

However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it.

Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program