[lizmat]

If you insist on comparing it to Perl, you could consider it "Perl Re-Imagined". Just like "The Lord Of The Rings" is a re-imagination of "The Hobbit".

[VeronicaX11]

I do have to say i'm rather impressed after your comment inspired me to look at the docs for the first time.

[webmaven]

> If you insist on comparing it to Perl, you could consider it "Perl Re-Imagined". Just like "The Lord Of The Rings" is a re-imagination of "The Hobbit".

The Lord of the Rings is a sequel to The Hobbit, rather than a re-imagining. Of course there was a bit of re-imagining necessarily involved, much like the relationship between Star Trek: The Original Series and it's sequel The Next Generation.

[lizmat]

As a Tolkien aficionado, Larry Wall I think knew what he was saying when he made this comparison. I think that if you compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit#Plot with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Plot, you'll get an appreciation as to what Larry Wall meant.

[webmaven]

Are you attributing the comparison in your comment to Larry Wall?