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Chapter 15. Perl > The Language of Revolutions
15.1. The Language of Revolutions
How do you define Perl?
Larry Wall: Perl is an ongoing experiment in how best to incorporate some of the principles of natural language into computer language, not at a shallow syntactic level like COBOL, but at a much deeper pragmatic level. Some of the fundamental principles of human language are—well, here, let me paste you a list:
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