Thanks for the Austral spec link! Programming languages come and go but I find it deeply interesting when language designers lay out the rationale behind possib

Thanks for the Austral spec link! Programming languages come and go but I find it deeply interesting when language designers lay out the rationale behind possibly outlandish decisions in their programming languages. Case in point, Larry Wall and Perl-y languages [0] [0] http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html