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		sharms on Sept 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Perl I am not sure this was a very good link, other than to say 'I can write this shorter than you and omit optional variables, oh and karma sucks'. Not a shining example of how cool perl is.

jrockway on Sept 25, 2009 [–]

It has very little to do with Perl and a lot to do with self-appointed "experts" on StackOverflow that aren't actually as smart as they think.

Whether or not the author of this blog post suffers from the same problem is debatable, however.

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