This evening in my Theory of Languages and Computability class we were talking about context free languages (CFL) and doing some proofs using the pumping lemma. One of the given examples (by my brilliant math professor who knows nothing of real programming languages) was Pascal. According to the definition and original documentation of the language, it can not be a CFL. C and C++ are supposedly like this as well.

So... what about Perl? Just from what I know (Perl is such a practical and down to earth language) it probably rarely encountered this during it's creation/evolution. I know precious little of it's roots, but I'm very interested. I'm not exactly looking for a reference to the original documentation, but rather people's opinions or a quote here and there.
- dystrophy -

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