A note to all the readers: the history part of the article is good, the technical Perl part is very ill-advised, partly due to when it was written (1999, prior

A note to all the readers: the history part of the article is good, the technical Perl part is very ill-advised, partly due to when it was written (1999, prior to Gettext's plurals support). Please don't follow those advices if you are writing Perl.