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It's only a foreign language (Score:2)

by BooK (2612)

Well, I personaly feel lucky that the programming languages I use and my native language have very little in common.

English is a foreign language, Perl is a foreign language, C is a foreign language, Befunge is an alien language (from outer space)... I never try to "speak" Perl as I speak English. And I never ever translate Perl to French (or the other way around).
- Re:It's only a foreign language (Score:1)
  
  by Maddingue (5320) on 2005.02.06 18:09 (#38040) Homepage Journal
  
  I second BooK in that I don't try to write Perl code as I would write English. It's only a programming language and not a human language. But I admit I often choose the name of functions and variables so that one can read what they do and what they are. However I didn't even thought of reading the sigils that way. But it might be useful for teaching the difference between $array[1] and @array[1,2,3] to beginners.
  
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