Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
Source: Wikipedia
Perl should only be studied as a second language. A good first language would be English.
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I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right.. But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most. : -)
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. : -)
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally.. : -)
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.. : -)
Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there.. : -)
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Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy.. : -)
Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'.
Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. : -)
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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