a most impressive and far-ranging opus

I find myself returning to Srinivasan's work time and time again. I'm a professional EE and CS type with more than 20 years' experience working in the guts of OS kernels, DBMS kernels, networking stacks, compilers, interpreters, window managers, etc., etc. There's always something to be learned from a fresh reexamination of this opus. It certainly will be over the heads of many readers, but don't be discouraged. If you're willing to put forth the effort, I promise you will widen your perspectives and deepen your understanding and appreciation of the power of Perl to solve variegated, intricate systems programming and text processing tasks.

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