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And my.variable sounds Perlish.

• KMag 6y ago
  That's because Perl was intended (Larry Wall was trained as a Linguist) to somewhat mimic natural English.
  • lordgrenville 6y ago
    That's a fascinating tidbit. You wouldn't exactly guess it from reading Perl.
  • athms 6y ago
    >Larry Wall was trained as a Linguist Having an undergraduate degree doesn't make somebody a linguist. Let me know when he has contributed to the field through scholarly work. Doing Bible translations doesn't count.