Perl Easy
"Swiss army chainsaw"
Stolen things from C, shell, awk, COBOL, FORTRAN, Ada, C++ ...
Easy things easy:
global variables
default strings and filehandles
plethora of operators and functions
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Yet Another Perl Conference 19101
, June 2001
The 80/20 Rule of Language Design
Nathan Torkington