On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Damian Conway <dam...@conway.org> wrote: > I'll happily concede that this example isn't nearly as impressive as > some of the others in this thread, but its real-world, useful, > conveniently incremental, requires no modules, and ably > demonstrates the value of many core features of Perl.
^^^ THIS This is why perl is great, and this is what should be evangelised about perl. Not that you can do it in 1 line with strange and obscure syntax. This is what people learn the most from. Not perl golf.