Like Learning Perl, this book relegates some of the more esoteric items out of the way for the first reading and places those items in footnotes.[3] You should skip those the first time through and pick them up on a rereading. You will not find anything in a footnote that is needed to understand any of the later material.
[3]Like this.
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