in reply to Perls of Wisdom

As I said before:
I had very little to do with the book, mostly because I had already written all the text over the years. I did help nudge the selection process a bit and write a sidebar for some of the columns to bring the subjects up to date or give a bit of "behind the scenes" for the writing.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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