> Perl ... allows me to emphasize the most important part of the statement when the situation warrants. Yes. The ordering of elements in a sentence is its "the

> Perl ... allows me to emphasize the most important part of the statement when the situation warrants. Yes. The ordering of elements in a sentence is its "thematic" structure, just as important in communicating as the "transitive" structure of sentences, i.e the relationship between nouns, verbs, etc. Most programming languages copy the transitive structure of natural languages, but not many allow the programmer to freely choose the thematic structure.