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		bbanyc on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technolog... To this day, the Configure script for Perl still outputs "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice." https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Configure#L4614

schoen on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

Wow, I had somehow forgotten about those chatty diagnostics about the Perl build system's reasoning about your local OS (maybe due to not having had to compile Perl recently?). They're awesome.

dredmorbius on Nov 28, 2019 | [–]

Classic Perl Journal, September, 1998:

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