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       Perl
       January 28th, 2018
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       I guess it's about time I bite the bullet and learn perl. Michael
       Conrad posted a link to his blog [0] about his absolutely
       incredible car project where he's designed a custom dash that's
       actually a little linux machine. He's done just about everything 
       in perl 5 and opened my eyes to some of its power.
       
       I've always thought of perl as a write-only (because the syntax is
       so dumb) glue language. Since I'm so comfortable with shell
       scripting, it seemed like an unnecessary step to take. It seems
       that some of that syntax has gotten better, and the way it
       interacts with c is pretty cool. Availablity on a huge range of
       systems is a plus.
       
       I found a few decent quickstart guides. I'll give this a go.
       
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