I don’t much care for Perl; I think that I must be the only system administrator on Earth who doesn’t. I see it as a Swiss Army Chainsaw; “there’s more than one way to do it” is not a feature when you (or deity forbid, someone else) have to read the code later and figure out what you were thinking when you wrote it. Or drinking when you wrote it.

Anyway, an alert fellow IMSA alumnus made me aware of a clever Perl implementation of a classic program.

I guess it does have some uses after all.