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German is the Java of human languages.

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• kuschku 11y ago
  Which is an awesome concept, if the alternatives are PHP (english).
  • krylon 11y ago
    English would be Perl, obviously. ;-)
    • wolfgke 11y ago
      This would imply that lots of English text can only be written, but hardly understood by someone else. No, really: I think PHP is the better comparison.
      • krylon 11y ago
        Well, but English is a very pragmatic language, "importing" ideas (vocabulary, mainly) freely from other languages, with a rather loose (dare I say "messy"? Compared to Latin, at least...) syntax that offers a lot of flexibility, making, as they say, easy things easy and hard things possible, choosing expressiveness over conceptual clarity/elegance. Sounds a little like Perl to me. ;-) OTOH, PHP has taken inspiration from Perl, so I do not disagree very strongly.