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When a language is large enough that man pages need re-reading, you know it's either a convoluted language, or a really good one.

Well, it could be worse. The man page could start with "how to read this man page": https://xkcd.com/1343/, sudoers.

Alexander

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Re^4: In order to be able to say "I know Perl", you must have:
by chacham (Prior) on Nov 11, 2017 at 21:14 UTC

    Well, i never meta manpage that....