I personally don't know any other non-specific block of interpretable data that comes so close to a spoken language (in general) than Perl. That doesn't make it a programming language per se but to define a programming language, one should define programming properly. Code wars are fun but I doubt this is the place to do it. Maybe the Java programmer is plain jealous? Like Microsoft claiming Linux isn't a threat to their marketshare.
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Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.
Comment on Re: Perl IS a programming language, right?
That's a very interesting and insightful comment (for
a beatnik, that is). After all, it seems to me that
language isn't well-defined in our brains as much as it
is just sort of loosely and dynamically (associatively?)
organized.
So then, perl is rightly called a "dynamic" language,
for that label applies in more ways than one.