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ILYA

Ilya Zakharevich, an old perl-porter, and author of
emacs cperl-mode, was interviewed in 2000:

"Ilya Regularly Expresses":
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/ilya.html

   Suprisingly, he complained of "the lack of a
   lot of key text-processing ingredients" in
   perl:

   "I wrote a (heuristic-driven) Perlish syntax parser
   and transformer in Emacs Lisp, and though Perl as a
   language is incomparably friendlier than Lisps, I         (Thankfully,
   would not be even able of thinking about rewriting        this did not
   this tool in Perl ..."                                    scare off the
                                                             authors of PPI.)






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