<xahlee at gmail.com> wrote in message news:f4abdb41-be28-4628-a2ad-7fb6cea6ed65 at u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com... [...] (for example, Perl's naming heavily relies on unix culture (grep, pipe, hash...), ... "hash" + "pipe"? Ahhhhh, /no wonder/ Perl is the syntactic mishmash it is! ;-)