> The reward? English-speaking children learn what is arguably the most > flexible and expressive spoken language in the world. Oh good hell. > Yup. Remember, Larry Wall is a linguist by training--he learned in school > about human languages. He applied this knowledge to Perl. I wish I had learned about human languages in school. That ape stuff got old real quick. > On another note, perhaps we should set up something where longer names for > some special variables are built in. How's $}PERLVERSION sound? Yeah, that's a good idea. Not. > Perl is hard to compare with any other languages except those it borrowed > heavily from or those that borrowed heavily from it. I don't think Perl has > borrowed much from Pascal (besides maybe the " : " syntax for attributes) so > Perl and Pascal are hard to compare. Uh .. > So the basic question is, readability or usability? I say usability. I say ":ability".
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