Re: Perl culture, perl readabillity

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Michael G Schwern [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>This seems to me more just an artifact of the fact that its a dead
*>language, and our concept of the language is frozen in time.

Well, it is still very much alive in the Romance languages and in the
Catholic Church.

In the April 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine, there is a wonderful article
on the wars over change and usage in the English language.
http://www.harpers.org/

"...it is indisputably easier to be dogmatic than Democratic, especially
about issues that are both vexed and highly charged." Snootitude.

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