Re: Perl culture, perl readabillity

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> In fact, I've come up with the same idea independently. Except I'd go a  
> bit further and claim that only a native English speaker could possibly  
> come up with the idea that irregularity is useful.

I'd say that only a linguist could possibly come up with the idea. :)

> It's most definitely not.

Then you'll have no problems with these little teasers:

1) Name one perfectly regular natural language. ("Natural" in the sense of
"having native speakers")

2) Explain why, if people *want* regularity, the evolution of natural
languages has tended *away* from regularity in almost all circumstances.

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