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We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl

We were wizards - a foreword to Learning Perl - J Wolfgang Goerlich.
In the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me who wandered into a book shop, picked up an odd book with llama on the cover and a seemingly misspelled title. The first few pages […]

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