Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.