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I was telling a friend this weekend

I was telling a friend this weekend about an article I'd read long ago about Larry Wall approaching the development of Perl as if it were a natural language. I think this is the article in question. Perl, the first postmodern computer language and a conversation with Larry Wall also touch on Perl and linguistics.

Update: Here's the original post to comp.lang.perl.misc by Wall. (thx, marc)

By Jason Kottke    May 7, 2007 at 11:02 am    language   larrywall   perl   programming

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