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is true, but only because I rarely find myself writing Perl
applications because I really want to write them. Were it not
for that caveat, that hasn't been true in any of my years of
writing Perl, and I doubt that it will be true this year,
either.  Perhaps I am just unlucky, or don't know where to look
on CPAN for what I need, but I doubt that's it. Instead I think
that it is because I wind up writing a lot of programs that are
very specific to my local environment, and are solving problems
that nobody else is interested in. Which is why I get paid,
because I am doing stuff that I wouldn't do if I wasn't getting
paid, and nobody else would do either.  For instance no matter
how long I wait, I doubt that anyone will put on CPAN any of the
reports that I need to write next week, all of which are very
company specific.  Also I would like to point out that the 10 to
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