Interesting perspective there. Worth noting that Larry Wall trained as a linguist and "often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale" [0]

> On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.

So true. I think Perl golf could be Samuel Beckett.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall