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Why bother saying any of that non-message related stuff if your message is what you want people to focus on?

My argument isn't strong enough, so I'll distract with the sentimental nostalgia

Mutating global state is bad. We all know this. Why should Perl special variables get a pass on that?

Hehe, why single out special variables, like STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR/@ARGV, why not single out perl itself? I mean global namespaces and all that, that's ten times worse than the special variables

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