Why, Hello jari...

Replying to a message of jari laaksonen to Bryan Schwartz:

 jl> What's Pearl?

Perl is an efficient language for "easily" (well, sort of ;-)
parsing streams of text; superseding parsing tools like SED and AWK. Very
versatile. As much other good stuff, it originates from Unix (as do SED and
AWK).

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