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		eitland on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The IA Client – The Swiss Army Knife of Internet A... It is not new :-) > "Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" - https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html/ > > Doug Sheppard, 2000-10-16 (Earliest quote I could find in three minutes.)

textfiles on June 6, 2019 [–]

I chose the phrasing because I deemed it accurate for the situation. This script has multiple functions and does a number of distinct things well depending on how it is invoked.

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