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Bob P is for Practical  Re^3: Perl for big projects (OT now)  by
spiritway (Vicar) on Jul 13, 2006 at 05:16 UTC
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Re^2: Perl for big projects in thread Perl for big projects  You
raised some excellent points, and you're right about many of
them. English is a mess, even by comparison to other natural
languages. However, a couple of observations may be in order.
First, I don't actually need to write a parser. I came equipped
with one, and it does a reasonable enough job - and so do most
peoples'. Overall, people do understand one another, more or
less. There are always spectacular exceptions, the stuff of many
comedies and tragedies. Second, while everyone knows a subset of
English, we tend to limit our spoken vocabularies to an even
smaller subset, possibly for this very reason. In ordinary
conversation I use fewer different words, and much simpler ones
than I would for a term paper, fo