<div dir="ltr">That's the first time I've heard Perl described as small and elegant.<div><br></div><div style>I'd go with "practical", myself.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Cheers...</div><div style>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mike Stok <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@stok.ca" target="_blank">mike@stok.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>In this week's Economist's obituary for Aaron Swartz <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569674-aaron-swartz-computer-programmer-and-activist-committed-suicide-january-11th-aged-26-aaron" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569674-aaron-swartz-computer-programmer-and-activist-committed-suicide-january-11th-aged-26-aaron</a> :</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:23px">In 2009 he wormed his way into a free-access trial of the PACER system, which contains all electronic federal court records, in certain public libraries; he downloaded 19.9m pages of it, then uploaded them to the cloud, before anyone could stop him. Again, it was easy: using a small, elegant language called perl, the documents fell into his hands.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></span>
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