It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.