I stopped reading at the word "art". And then I started reading again. Larry took it in a different direction that I presumed and it's certainly an interesting

I stopped reading at the word "art". And then I started reading again. Larry took it in a different direction that I presumed and it's certainly an interesting claim to make. I'm just not really sure if I buy it... It sounds to me like dropping someone in a Home Depot surrounded by various tools and materials and saying "Go ahead build a dog house anyway you like." "Art!" I greatly enjoy the creativity involved in programming and I can appreciate the aspects that set Perl apart from other languages at its inception. But I get a lot more satisfaction out of simplicity and elegance in my language than the ability to put a condition on either side or whether scalars, arrays, and hashes have unique identifiers in the variable name. Maybe I got into it at the wrong time, but Perl has never felt like art to me...