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Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless by KMag on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:30AM (#25939184)
That's because Perl was intended (Larry Wall was trained as a Linguist) to somewhat mimic natural English.
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Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless by lordgrenville on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:54AM (#25940751)
That's a fascinating tidbit. You wouldn't exactly guess it from reading Perl.
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Re:OO in Python is mostly pointless by athms on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:22PM (#25960518)
>Larry Wall was trained as a Linguist

Having an undergraduate degree doesn't make somebody a linguist. Let me know when he has contributed to the field through scholarly work. Doing Bible translations doesn't count.

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