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by edoceo 4350 days ago
The $ vars lead me to either Shell, Perl or PHP.

$_ is a special var in Bash and Perl.

The '.' char is for string concat in Perl and PHP

So, I think this is perl.

The first statement evaluates to: "echo Brian Rogers >&2" The second statement `$_` runs that command.

The end result is that this line of code prints:

Brian Rogers