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[History] 1 February 1988: "Perl, a 'replacement' for awk and sed, Part01/10"
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Perl I believe is where the programming adage of TMTOWTDI comes from — There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Python was an anathema to that ideal, where TOOWTDI — There’s Only One Way To Do It, or at least one ideal way