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I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.
Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey's paw for a language that works on the first try. What's onscreen are your raw brain patterns.
Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn't pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.
Lol