You make a good point. From whose point of view is perl not a language ?

From my point of view and thousands of others who use perl every day to write computer programs, I say it is!
From a academics point of view perhaps not. But from their point of view perhaps Java isn't either ? Has anyone defined a axiomatic symantic for Java and used it to prove it's correctness ?

I guess it comes down to whose opinion you value more.

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Nic