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by mikegrb 4479 days ago
> What I'm talking about is the level of toolchain familiarity where e.g. you can look at a given piece of code and know exactly which opcodes it'll get compiled to, what algorithms those opcodes will employ, and by extension how everything else in the system works.

Indeed, and I can say for sure the author of the post has such a low level knowledge of Perl.