>I remember there was a paper that tried to compare natural language usage of common programming language keywords to see if they may come up with other constru

>I remember there was a paper that tried to compare natural language usage of common programming language keywords to see if they may come up with other constructs to create a programming language that is easier to learn as your first one. Wasn't that the goal of Perl? It was inspired from natural language first, not inspired from another programming language first. This is why it's so quick and easy to prototype in it, arguably far easier than any other language. I believe it is the only programming language to be inspired from natural language first.