I totally agree. I fit all of those including this summer my job was perl. The book is great i love the MU problem but i dont understand the rest of the book for the most part. I feel that perl has changed the way i code in that i am much more free flowing and artistic. I see more of the vision behind coding instead of the schmantics of everything and i see the code as beautiful. I feel that perl is the true essance of the Tao Of Programming. And it has brought me closer to having the foo!!
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