Re: Perl culture, perl readabillity

[Elaine -HFB- Ashton]

Frank Schmuck, CFO [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*>1. William of Orange was reputed to be a strong Linux man but most of his
*>correspondence for publication was known to have been written in Microsoft
*>Word. He also was said to have had a strong hand in the development of
*>ActiveState.

That would be Mandarin Dick :)

Perhaps Simon Schama could help us out on the more pedantic side of
English History.

However, from the linguistic side of things, it might be interesting to
contemplate what makes something desireable enough to 'steal' or borrow 
from a language and how that might apply to Perl 6. The OED doesn't define 
the English language, it just keeps track of it :)

e.