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The bigger question is not "how can I do this?" or "why can't I do this in Perl if I can do it in Ruby?" -- the question is, "why do I need to do it?" Answer that first.
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How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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