Desperate Perl Hacker
I remember with a certain vindictive glee the doomed pathetic thrashing of the follow-on project; someone with Enterprise Experience decided that my pathetic amateurish Perl crawler should be replaced by a properly-architected Java version.
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Perl is the language Web owns a lot to. It was a also the first programming language I've learned. Tim Bray reminds us which, now obvious, concepts were introduced by Perl.
