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Java was marketed (at least in its early days) as a WORA language - WRITE ONCE RUN ANYWHERE.
Perl was unmarketed as a WORM language - WRITE ONCE READ MANY (TIMES). ;)
jk, i actually like perl somewhat.
but I think Larry and team went somewhat overboard with that human-style linguistics stuff that they applied to perl.
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Java was marketed (at least in its early days) as a WORA language - WRITE ONCE RUN ANYWHERE.
Perl was unmarketed as a WORM language - WRITE ONCE READ MANY (TIMES). ;)
jk, i actually like perl somewhat.
but I think Larry and team went somewhat overboard with that human-style linguistics stuff that they applied to perl.