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Tools like headless browsers might turn into the "perl" of this generation. :)

Years ago I could always find a way to make Perl do whatever I wanted. It was usually "wrong" to fire up an entire interpreter compared to using faster, less flexible tools but it got the job done. Now I imagine people thinking, "the browser will do this", especially if they can grab screenshots or other local data files.



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