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English would be Perl, obviously. ;-)
by krylon 11y ago
English would be Perl, obviously. ;-)
- wolfgke 11y agoThis 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 agoWell, 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.