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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by knighthacker on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @01:29PM (#4938774)
Happy Birthday, Perl :). At Crowdtilt, we are proud to have the majority of our stack Perl based. w00t w00t CPAN :)
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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by bobochan on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:42PM (#4939478)
Came here looking for someone else wishing Perl many happy returns as it reaches this august landmark.

I have been working as a programmer for 25 years and started using Perl in 1993 or so. I cannot express what it felt like to have this incredibly powerful tool that seemed to integrate all of the sed, awk, shell, and C code that I had for research. Using Perl absolutely felt like magic, particularly for analyzing text.

I love Python, Ruby, and Lua too, but Perl will always be the tool that quickly gets things up and running.

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