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Posts Tagged ‘perl’

I’ve been coding in Perl for years and, generally, I think I’m a pretty competent coder. However, every now and again, I fall into a hole that takes me a loooong time to get out of. Invariably, these problems boil down to upload issues, not code issues. As an aide-mémoire for myself and, hopefully, to you, I thought I’d jot down a few problems that I’ve seen and what the solution was.
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I saw @mhat’s tweet today about ‘What language should I learn‘  and it got me thinking about the times I’ve asked that question and how I might answer it. So, @mhat, I’m taking your tweet to be a challenge to write an unbiased and ‘unwrong’ post. To do this, I’m going to give you a history of the languages I have learned.
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