Left to nothing but scalars, math, and simple I/O Perl
is less complicated than the standard teaching languages.
Yeah, but then you're excluding something basic as arrays. But once
you introduce arrays, you got to deal with things like sigils and
context. Which you don't have to deal with in Java, Pascal, or even C.
If you want to dumb down Perl to something less complicated than
say Java or Pascal, you're left with a language that's too bare bones
to be useful.
Then include arrays. Perl's sigils aren't any worse than
char/short/int/long/float/double/array/malloc management,
let alone (size_t *) and NULL.
You can do quite a bit in Perl without the unistd features
or getting heavily into module design.
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