Perl code appears only natural to me. The syntax is flexible enough to accomodate tastes of a diverse number of developers. Following the work being done on the Parrot engine which will serve as a 'base' for the new and improved version of Perl (6), lexical element of the language is given an additional dimension. It will be possible for one to alter any portion of the language to fit his/her cultural, aesthetical and otherwise needs.
Although regular expressions is
the jewel of Perl, other things are not the least important. First comes to mind it's incredible flexibility and power to do complicated tasks in just a few code statements. In contrast, same task may require significantly larger code and effort were it tackled in C, for example. Worth mentioning also are it's numerous modules designed to solve any problem imaginable (at least in the Internet/IP realm).
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# Under Construction
