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"I also ended up needing to find a Perl script that was buried deep in some university website. I still don’t know anything about Perl, but I got it to run"

Find dusty Perl script forgotten for years. Still works

Not the first time that I hear that




Outside of javascript, it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that if you have the sources, you can get them to run


Most Perl code now a days runs under Perl5. I once tried running a Perl4 script in Perl5 and did not have a good day.




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