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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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Nuclear physics (Score:2)

by rafael (2125)

You say that ... I started out in experimental nuclear physics, which really means I had to deal with a lot of computer simulations which output a lot of text. I started using Perl to extract the parts of those reports that I needed.
How fun, that's exactly how I started Perl. (I was an intern at EDF -- Electricité De France -- at this time.)
Getting your name right (Score:1)

by rooneg (3732)

That's surprising, they didn't have any trouble with getting chromatic's name right in "Practical Subversion", although it did take some reminding to get the copy editors to stop "correcting" it.