I am blessed with a stellar amount of hubris. Boring, repetitive tasks are below me. Boring, repetitive tasks are what computers excel at. Consequently:

I like computers because they do the boring stuff for me. I'm left free to dedicate my mind to more important stuff.

I like programming because it's the way to get the computer to get stuff done. And I like the mathematical way of thinking it requires.

I like Perl because even when programming, there are boring things to do - keeping track of memory being the main one of course, in the myriad of incarnations this responsibility takes. Other things that come to mind are keeping track of synthetic code and variables for loops and other condititions. But with Perl, I don't have to - almost never have to. And that's why I like it.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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