Question

This non-English language was used by Sharon Hopkins Rauenzahn to write a poem that notes “keys [hidden], open [locks, doors], tell secrets” and pleads “do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.” An anonymous poem that directs the reader to “open spellbook” and outlines a sacrifice-based ritual is titled for a “Black” version of this language. This language looks like “checksummed line noise with a mission in life” according to Randal “merlyn” Schwarz, who co-founded a group of its (*) “mongers.” This language was created to fill a gap between “whipupitude” and “manipulexity” by the developer of the rn (“R-N”) client and the patch program. In 2019, its sixth version was renamed “Raku.” “There’s more than one way to do it” is a slogan of, for 10 points, what programming language created by Larry Wall, which may be used for “practical extraction and reporting”? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Perl [accept “Black Perl” or Perl Mongers or Perl 6; accept Raku before “Raku”]
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= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry1400
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) BagelryColumbia B1400
Mazin OmerWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft14010
Michal GerasimiukUG Championship Players (and Mazin)meet the new weird, same as the old weird14010

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y2100%0%0%125.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y367%0%0%140.00
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y250%0%0%140.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%33%33%113.00