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It's the tools! (Score:2)
He starts off the article talking about the inability to change the language without the language designer, or change the IDE until it reaches a new version.
The shell has always been good enough for me. If someone insists on a fancy windowing IDE thing, then that's what they get.
With Perl's filters, you can even change the language to be almost anything. T