You should definitely compare this letter with the original version which got a bit edited. In fact, one of my future ideas was to do a "diff" between the column archives of the magazine publisher against my originals, to see how much had actually change on my 140+ columns for the many magazines.

And while WT has now ended, be sure to check out my other two ongoing columns: Linux Magazine and SysAdmin magazine.

As always, if you have a column idea, write me, and get credit in print!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker