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Larry Wall's 2007 essay on Scripting Languages
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Quotations for all occasions
Wise Old Sayings
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Collective Nouns:
A troop of kangaroos
A knot of toads
A crash of rhinoceroses
A colony of ants
A flock of sheep
A litter of pups
A string of ponies
A covey of partridges
A pride of lions
A herd of elephants
A plague of locust
A kindle of kittens
A leap of leopards
A school of fish
A pod of seals
A sloth of asses
A pace of asses
A drove of cattle
A rafter of turkeys
An ostentation of peacocks
A gam of whales
A walk of snipe
A route of wolves
A host of sparrows
A gang of elk
A clowder of cats
A peep of chickens
A husk of hares
A dule of doves
A sulk of foxes
A dissimulation of birds
A spring of teal
A fall of woodcocks
A bevy of roebuck
A crackle of cockatoos
A business of ferrets
A bale of turtles
A drift of hogs
A paddling of ducks
A siege of herons
A trip of goats
A charm of finches
A cete of badgers
A sett of badgers
A deceit of lapwings
A shoal of bass
An exaltation of larks
A singular of boars
A tiding of magpies
A congregation of plovers
A unkindness of ravens
A labor of moles
A richness of martens
A cast of hawks
A descent of woodpeckers
A sounder of swine
A mustering of storks
A clutch of eggs
A bouquet of pheasants
An army of caterpillars
A hover of trout
A flight of swallows
A watch of nightingales
A barren of mules
A shrewdness of apes
A rag of colts
A murmuration of starlings
A building of rooks
A smack of jellyfish
A harness of horses
A parliament of owls
A nest of rabbits
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