• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Perl because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

    I learned it because the ancient beast kept breaking because it just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat cobbled together over generations.

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      4 months ago

      because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

      Hmm… OpenBSD ports system and package manager?