Different perspectives are interesting if they can be used to solve the problem at hand. > I hadn't heard from linguists before. Are you sure? Larry Wall, cre

Different perspectives are interesting if they can be used to solve the problem at hand. > I hadn't heard from linguists before. Are you sure? Larry Wall, creator of Perl, is a linguist. His education certainly guided his decisions when designing the language. He certainly had different "tools of thought" compared to other programmers at the time, and it shows. You can hear him multiple talks and read books from him about the topic, and none of them are filled with out-of-context, unnecessary jargon.