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Larry Wall said (in 1991):
 
     In article <l8bHn=?l3@cs.psu.edu> flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
     : awk is much better than perl at one-line summations:
     :  awk '{t += $1} END {print t}'
     Hey, I had to let awk be better at something...  :-)
 
But I did get awfully tired of writing this over and over
awk '{t += $1} END {print t}' is a lot to type
One day, I wrote addup
        #!/usr/local/bin/perl -na
        $total += $F[0];
        END {print $total, "\n" }
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