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.
Larry WallWell, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
Larry WallNatural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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