...and how many of them were designed to be sprinkled liberally in the command line? Python has a REPL but you couldn’t dump a Python one liner in your Bash pi

...and how many of them were designed to be sprinkled liberally in the command line? Python has a REPL but you couldn’t dump a Python one liner in your Bash pipeline. Maybe a LISP might qualify but then you’re back to a language family that is unreadable to many and unknown to most (and I say this as someone who loves LISP) When talking about the original design of Perl you can’t put it in the same category as Python, Pascal and the C-family of languages. Perl was born from an entirely different problem to solve and that’s why some of it’s historic features seem so alien to people outside of the Perl community.