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Perl is an interpreted language optimised for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh. Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data - if you've got the memory, Perl can read in an entire file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth. And the hash tables used by associative arrays grow as necessary to prevent degraded performance. Perl uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of data very quickly. Although optimised for scanning text, Perl can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like associative arrays.
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Puffer by Kent Briggs is a password-based data file and e-mail encryption utility for Microsoft Windows. It allows you to keep your personal, business, and electronic transmitted data private.
Puffer uses the highly rated Blowfish algorithm for fast, secure encryption and the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) for key generation. Three output formats are supported including binary, self- extracting executables, and 7-bit text for Internet e-mail.
Puffer also includes a three-pass, secure file wipe feature.
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A hash is a British cross-country fun run between public houses with beer drinking forfeits.
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Haricot is a highly seasoned hash of lamb or mutton or other meat, first fried or grilled, and vegetables, principally carrots. The name has also been given to a type of kidney pulse (the haricot bean) which was formerly much used in the dish, and after which the pulse is named.
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Hash is a dish of cooked meat or vegetable, diced or chopped small, and reheated in a sauce.
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Picadillo is a Cuban beef hash flavoured with chilli, olives and capers.
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Ketama is the principal hash growing town in Morocco. Visitors are advised to stay away as the area is guarded by armed drug gangs.
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Clean up the kitchen is American slang for the dish 'hash'.
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Hash is slang for the resin from marijuana plants pressed into cakes or slabs.
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Jack Flash is London Cockney rhyming slang for crash.
Jack Flash is London Cockney rhyming slang for smash.
Jack Flash is London Cockney rhyming slang for hashish (hash).
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