Some people describe one-liners as a “dirty little secret”. That special thrill that some of us get when we can do in one line of text what many others require numerous lines in a script to accomplish ...

Let me get this out of the way up front: Perl isn’t a beautiful language. It’s kind of a mongrel pup with pedigreed academic roots: C, AWK, Lisp, Pascal, sed, and a bit of Smalltalk and C++ tossed in ...