> 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".
