Today I had to get perl up and running on a new CentOS machine, and I remembered why I don’t like perl.  I tried to do everything from the CPAN system.  I got things working after hunting and doing things by hand, but the crux of the problem was:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
>install HTML::Mason
… needs to [...]

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Today I had to get perl up and running on a new CentOS machine, and I remembered why I don’t like perl.  I tried to do everything from the CPAN system.  I got things working after hunting and doing things by hand, but the crux of the problem was:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
>install HTML::Mason
… needs to [...]

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“aproposnent”  n.  someone who supports what seems to be the most pertinent idea or thing.

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I’ve had more than a passing interest in foreign languages over the years. I took the requisite Spanish in high school (4 years), including a summer abroad in Spain (hola la familia espinosa!). While I was never fluent in Spanish, I could passably read basic texts (newspapers, etc) and function overseas as a [...]

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