I'm sure this story isn't exactly news to most of you, but it was a fun experience for me.

The most important thing is that you feel happy. I guess that's how lots of people learn things. You trust and treasure the stuffs you experienced, created, and resolved the most, more than anything you heard from others. Not to say the joy you have.

Can I suggest one experiment? Give Tie::File a try on the input file side, and see how it affects your system, and your experience.

In fact, I tried telling some of my coworkers why I was so happy with the app, but none of them seemed to think it was a big deal.

Maybe they will start with your third pass from the beginning, because of their experience. But what a big deal, when they do this for the first time in their life, they probably took a learning curve even longer than yours ;-)

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