Re: Perl

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From: Darrell Fuhriman
Subject: Re: Perl
Date: 16:39 on 25 Feb 2004
> speaking person I have a word to say. Languages derived from Latin do
> have syntax, while Finnish has more exceptions than rules. Actually
> 'there's more than one way to say it' could be the motto here ;)

Which comes back to "all languages suck".  I've studied German,
grew up speaking English, and had a smattering of Japanese and
Spanish, plus a fair bit of linguistic geekery studying Syntax
and Morphology, which allows me state, with at least as much
authority as I can on most anything else:

They all suck.  They just suck differently.

> Moreover, Finns themselves sometimes argue about which form this or that
> word should be put in ;)

That happens everywhere, checkout alt.usage.english or
de.etc.sprache.deutsch for example.

Darrell
There's stuff above here

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