[tpm] Perl in the Economist

Richard Dice rdice at pobox.com
Thu Jan 24 16:52:49 PST 2013


That's the first time I've heard Perl described as small and elegant.

I'd go with "practical", myself.

Cheers...



On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Mike Stok <mike at stok.ca> wrote:

> In this week's Economist's obituary for Aaron Swartz
> http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21569674-aaron-swartz-computer-programmer-and-activist-committed-suicide-january-11th-aged-26-aaron:
>
> 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.
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