English teachers often teach because they have a passion for the language. English is a difficult language, easy to abuse. You may abuse it the way James Joyce does, or the way a child does. Languages are always in transition and people are always in the process of learning them, and they make mistakes and do ignorant things. Such is the nature of learning a language (and teaching it)!

But I've never heard an English teacher give up in frustration and tell a student that maybe they would be better off with Esperanto.

So all (or perhaps only some) things considered, I believe first that Perl is for everyone who wishes to learn it. Second, that no question or questioner should be turned away for questioning the foundations of a language. And third, that having a third point might benefit my argument. Sadly, it is not so.

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