>>PHP also inherits shell's here doc syntax, e.g. <<EOF . Not sure if Perl has that. It does. >>It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left Larr

>>PHP also inherits shell's here doc syntax, e.g. <<EOF . Not sure if Perl has that. It does. >>It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left Larry Wall says he went that direction to make namespace clashing between $dog, @dog, %dog, and "sub dog {}" (scalar, array, hashtable, function) a non-issue. http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html ("Disambiguation")