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> When we were first taught programming (in Pascal), some students > complained the language was using English. The professor responded that > "computer languages don't use English. They use arbitrary keywords that > just happen to resemble English words". Yes, but Perl's *different*, right? It's not one of these heartless mathematical programming languages, it was designed by a *linguist*. Am I bitter? Me? Maybe. Permanently scarred by Perl 4, anyway.
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