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Re:The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf] by zzzcpan on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:52PM (#8815703)
> list expansion behavior in function calls is a problem most programmers weren't aware of.

Actually, what lists do in list context is one thing every Perl programmer knows. You cannot go too far without it in Perl.

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Re:The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf] by pwr22 on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @07:49PM (#8817724)
Most Python programmers switching to Perl an assuming it works the same way is probably true though :P
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Re:The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf] by Ad_Nauseam on Saturday January 03, 2015 @01:29AM (#8830087)
Rather than switching to perl, most python programmers i know always badmouthing perl
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