(With apologies to William Carlos Williams)

So much depends
upon

a good list
processor

glazed with regular
expressions

beside the data
piles.

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Midrash:

For some reason, the title sort of reminds me of that phrase
used to describe perl: "the Swiss-Army Chainsaw".

I wanted to work in the idea of string tokenization, too,
but I was forced to choose between that and regexps, and
decided that tokenization is sort of a weak form of regexp :)

Hijacking this poem made me wonder how the Burrito Principle
applied to perl. The Burrito Principle is a (mis)application
of the Pareto Principle:

80% of the meat is in 20% of the burrito.

If I were to choose the pieces of perl that delivered the most
characteristics of perl, what would I choose? This is
different than describing perl, in that I'm thinking more like
what a minimal distribution of perl would be, rather than
what perl is.

Which makes me wonder: is there a 'mini perl' out there?
What does it do? What doesn't it do?

rje, but you can call me Robert.

In reply to The Perl Wheelbarrow by rje

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