When we were first taught programming (in Pascal), some students complained the language was using English. The professor responded that "computer languages don't use English. They use arbitrary keywords that just happen to resemble English words".
Yes, but Perl's *different*, right? It's not one of these heartless mathematical programming languages, it was designed by a *linguist*.
Am I bitter? Me? Maybe. Permanently scarred by Perl 4, anyway.
