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On 5 Sep 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> For the record, I consider Perl bloat as well, but it's useful and
> well established (there are 14 Perl scripts in (/usr)?/s?bin), so I
> won't groan too loudly.

Awk and Sed are the bloat here, not Perl.  Unfortunately, they're
too engrained for historical reasons.


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