Re^2: Murder of a Perl coder (announced)

Why do perl -e "while (<>){s/abc/def/ig; print}" when you can do perl -pe "s/abc/def/ig" ?

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Re^3: Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by EdwardG (Vicar) on Oct 13, 2004 at 14:38 UTC
Because someone's got to supply material for the Type D monks. ;-)	[reply]
Re^3: Murder of a Perl coder (announced) by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 14, 2004 at 09:08 UTC
Because there are more important things to remember than perl command line switches.	[reply]

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