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dboyd · 2016-11-07 · Original thread
That is in the lama book (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do).

> Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.

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