[Gambas-user] Larry Wall: Natural Language Principles in Perl

[Nelson Ferraz]

Here's an interesting article from Perl creator, Larry Wall, where he
writes about the natural language principles behind Perl:

 - Learn it once, use it many times
 - Learn as you go
 - Many acceptable levels of competence
 - Multiple ways to say the same thing
 - No shame in borrowing
 - Indeterminate dimensionality
 - Local ambiguity is okay
 - Punctuation by prosody and inflection
 - Disambiguation by number, case and word order
 - Topicalization
 - Discourse structure
 - Pronominalization
 - No theoretical axes to grind
 - Style not enforced except by peer pressure
 - Cooperative design
 - ``Inevitable'' Divergence

The article is well worth reading:

http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html