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Re:Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed by tod222 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:06PM (#36658339)
> anyone else still having nightmares from trying to escape quotes and meta chars in a shell?

This was a major reason I downloaded Perl 1.0 off Usenet in 1987.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657782

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