On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:34:41PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> As a developer since a quarter century but only a few months in Perl I'm
> closely following the process of creating Perl6.
> This might come from the fact Perl was/is designed by
> english speaking people. It seems that the complexity of english writing
> is directly integrated into Perl.
I don't know about the influence of English over other languages,
but Larry specifically designed Perl to be more like natural
language than most other programming languages.
In case you haven't seen it yet:
"Natural Language Principles in Perl"
http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html
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