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by berntb 6105 days ago
IMHO, the best part with Perl is the community (CPAN is a result of that) -- and the worst part is the relentless trolling on web sites like this...

Since Ruby/Python/Perl are really similar, I'd recommend that you learn something completely different instead.

Disclaimer: I like Perl. What makes Perl fun for me is to a large part that the linguistics influence results in Perl breaking most "normal" laws for programming language design, but still works. I go to work smiling.
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jrockway 6105 days ago
I don't think it's a lingusitics thing, rather, Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were. Larry never sat down and said, "I am the only person that is possibly smart enough to understand this concept, so I am not going to add it to the language". (Java and PHP's designers did. Look what that got them...)
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berntb 6105 days ago
>>Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were.

That was a design decision, not influence from natural languages? Fun.

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