Is there a specific reason you've never written network servers in Perl? (i.e. am I missing something important?)

You're not missing anything. Most of the network servers I've written have been done as part of my job. The situations called for coding in C/C++. Most of my personal stuff has been written to run as web-based applications and are written in perl.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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