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by carlmr 3130 days ago
>Perl is essentially a pigdin or creole language composed of C, shell, awk, sed and POSIX concepts with bits of Lisp thrown in.

That mixing and matching seems exactly like the quirks a linguist would pick up that lower usability (at least for the general user, Unix users are kind of used to being thrown in the deep end of the usability pool).