Perl sucks

Writing code from scratch is for idiots.  ALWAYS look for pre-existing code and ALWAYS try and improve up on it, but doing a project from scratch is stupid and will only lead to headaches. 

That is why perl is a bad language because perl programmers can't read each others codee

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Okay, that was slightly more interesting. But you left out the case where both arguments are null strings in the C++ version.