As much as I disliked my time spent with perl several decades ago, the terseness did allow for some impressive "stunts" due to the amount of moving parts one ~8

As much as I disliked my time spent with perl several decades ago, the terseness did allow for some impressive "stunts" due to the amount of moving parts one ~80x40 window of code could present to the coder. God help anyone trying to read that stuff after the fact.