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> "A good language allows people to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and > "Barbara Streisand", no matter how unpleasant the words may sound. Alas, Perl only allows you to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and "Barbara Streisand" because they've been designed into the language... and it doesn't let you say "strooth" or "cobber" or "gruntbugly" because the Academie Perlais hasn't thought of those. The teachers and users of the language have little or no hand in its evolution because it's guided from afar like French, rather than being allowed to grow like English. It reminds me of Terry Pratchet's Guild of Joculators, with its hundred approved puns, "see, what a flexible language, Perl 6 allows you to say 'marry, nuncle' as well as 'forsooth'"...There's stuff above here
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