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in thread Installation on windows using perl

Perl, Ruby, Python, Haskel? I tell you, it is al luxury nowadays! When I was young we installed programs by poke-ing machine code in hex directly into RAM, which was already a luxurious improvement over hardwiring the magnetic core memory units.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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