@codinghorror @siracusa and also, basically every language today handles strings more like Perl than any other programming language before it (other than sed and awk; not sure whether we should be fighting about whether those are languages, but they’re certainly ancestors of Perl)

@lkanies @siracusa there can be be only one programming language

@enobacon @lkanies @siracusa look, people: it's a done deal https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power