One example of ESR's Perl code isn't even that interesting. It's just a monolithic script full of the global variables, repetition, useless busy work, and incon

One example of ESR's Perl code isn't even that interesting. It's just a monolithic script full of the global variables, repetition, useless busy work, and inconsistencies you'd expect from someone who didn't know the language very well: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/search/keeper-1.54.tar.gz http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/search/keeper-1.54.tar.gz It's slightly better than what you'd have downloaded from any one of hundreds of "FREE PERL SCRIPT" sites in the late '90s, if only because ESR understood Unix better than most.