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		jrockway on Sept 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl Myths Talk 2009 I don't think it's a lingusitics thing, rather, Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were. Larry never sat down and said, "I am the only person that is possibly smart enough to understand this concept, so I am not going to add it to the language". (Java and PHP's designers did. Look what that got them...)

berntb on Sept 26, 2009 [–]

>>Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were.

That was a design decision, not influence from natural languages? Fun.

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