Emulate Linux MIPS in Perl? Please!

Every Perl programmer seems to think that you can do anything in Perl. If you can emulate MIPS in Perl and run Linux on top of it, the Perl programmers might be right!
The Emulating Linux MIPS in Perl series starts with a designing an ELF loader in Perl.

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