Well actually, there has been some concern raised with regard to the version of Perl shipped with Red Hat Linux 9.0 - See this summary from the perl5-porters list prepared by Rafael Garcia-Suarez and posted on http://use.perl.org. In short, set the environment variable LANG to C before building any modules.

As to the original reference of Perl as the duct tape of the Internet, I seem to vaguely remember some references dated back to 1997 or so. Searching with Google returns a number of references, but alas I haven't been able to find the original essay in which I read this term.

 

perl -le 'print+unpack"N",pack"B32","00000000000000000000001001011110"'

In reply to Re: Better than duct tape? by rob_au
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