>> I'd say that Perl is like 
> 
> PHP is exactly this, yes.

Oh dears.

>> I'm not familiar with Ruby, Scheme, or Mozart. Of course I've heard of 
>> all these things, but I don't know anything about them. (I started 
>> reading a Ruby tutorial, but the random inconsistant syntax put me 
>> off. And the ham.)
> 
> Yep. And the fact that the guy who wrote the most definitive texts 
> doesn't actually know what the language does. (At several points in the 
> Axe book, the author says "It seems to do this" or "it apparently does 
> that.") And the fact that between minor version 18 and minor version 19 
> they made a bunch of unneccesary and seemingly trivial changes to 
> defaults that would nevertheless break any program that relied on those 
> defaults. Those are the main reasons I never really pursued it.

Yes.

And the thing with the ham...

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