Agreed! As per the quotes below. :)
Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies
the ways in which context contributes to meaning
-- Pragmatics (wikipedia)
Neither is the soul of Perl, which rests in the realm of pragmatics
-- Linguist Larry Wall (aka TimToady) in Re^2: What's wrong with Perl 6?
Perl has further been described as an "OO language", where
"OO" means, not "object-oriented", but "operator-oriented" --
as per the classic
Periodic Table of the Operators.
Note that Perl can easily support many more operators
than most conventional
programming languages because alphabetic operators in Perl (e.g. lt) are
easily distinguished from variable names
because variables must start with a sigil (e.g. $ or @ or %).
