Yep, fair enough, I thought this was another when ain't it the best thread. I'm with everyone else here - Perl is Turing complete and has plenty of nice feautres on top of that. I've noticed amoung my friends that Perl tends to be put down the hardest by crazed C programmers who feel that a language that mollycoddles it's programmers by making programming easier can't be a real language. So that statement "Why isn't Perl a real, full programming language" probably has a lot of cultural overtones we are missing from the lack of context.

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