It is all Greek-ish
Then I take course on Perl
It's now plain English


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See Perl,      I'm interested
See course,    I teach myself
See book,      I improve
See task,      I take up to it
See result,    there's a bug
See bug,       I debug it
See debugger,  there's still a bug
See repeats,   I'm getting headache
See 1 mistake, computer crash
See my head,   asplode. [sic]


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"The VCR of Programming" (concrete)
P    lreP      P    P         Perl lreP
Pe   lreP      Pe   Pe        Perl lreP
Per  lreP      Per  Per       Perl lreP
Perl lreP      Perl Perl      Perl lreP
Per  lreP      Per  Per       Perl lreP
Pe   lreP      Pe   Pe        Perl lreP
P    lreP      P    P         Perl lreP


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There once was a guy named Larry
Who decided C and awk should marry
Although 'twas success
And it's now the best
It's still just somewhat scary

(If you're wondering about Ch. 72 and the like, each book 
[Book A, B, C...] contains four chapters each. I number each 
chapter by its position in the book, 
and the total number of chapters so far)