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From: fjh@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: GNU Extension Language Plans
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>(no, I don't think Perl's COBOL.

Perl _is_ COBOL, not because of its verbosity, but because of the
large number of builtin commands *each with its own peculiar syntax*.

(Saying "Perl is COBOL" is a bit too strong, but you know what I mean.)

-- 
Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
