Use Word or emacs? Go with Microsoft or GNU? Easy decisions. Perl, Java, .NET? Choosing from these is harder, But I prefer Perl. Remember fondly The silly things we chose from Back in the 80s. TRS 80, Commodore, or Atari? Mine was an Apple. A //c that had A 1200 baud modem, And Ascii Express. Applesoft Basic Had no "while", had no hashes. Coding was a chore. Then came the 90s The fight was Mac or Intel Steve Jobs or Bill Gates With pretty windows, 640x480, The old days were gone Move forward some more Unix, Linux, CGI, They were all the rage. Writing a shell script Could do more in 5 minutes, Than with hours of C... The savvy noticed that Perl could do it in 3, plus it looks so cool Give me a Perl job. Goodbye old Apple //c, Hello cubicle
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