Perl tends to follow principles of natural languages closer than most computer languages

Closer than what? SML? Perl's constantly held up as being "closer to natural languages" but compared to what? C? When you make a fair comparison, like Ruby or Python (or even Java) that simply does not hold up. You can write code in Python that reads as concise sentences and doesn't look like \$@%<>{}; are all now letters of the alphabet.

As for number of words 25 of those are python keywords. This is a much higher percentage of keywords than Perl. This is also completely irrelevant as being one of those words does not make the language easier to use. Def, del, exec are all good keywords but won't be found on that list. If you're going to look at how close a programming language is to a human language, you'd be better off focusing on the actual instruction statements rather than numbers of keywords on some list.

In reply to Re: Re: Common Words, Perl Keywords by Anonymous Monk
in thread Common Words, Perl Keywords by Cody Pendant

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