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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by bzb3 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:02AM (#23360522)
Perl is what you want it to be. You can make it readable or unreadable. There's Perl code out there that looks like C and Perl code out there that looks like Brainfuck

In any case, it's being compared to Awk here.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by thesuperbigfrog on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:09AM (#23361280)
>> Perl is what you want it to be. You can make it readable or unreadable. There's Perl code out there that looks like C and Perl code out there that looks like Brainfuck.

Or Latin:

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Lingua-Romana-Perligat...

Or Klingon:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun

Or Poetry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

Perl could be considered too flexible.

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