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We were switching from IBM mainframes to Unix (we'd just gotten in a Cray X-MP running Unicos) and UniTree running on a Convex; one of the Convex FE's told me that I could learn shell, awk, sed, and C programming ... or just learn Perl.

I went with Perl.

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