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You know, when I look at Russian Cyrillic, or Greek letters, it looks like squiggles. I've never studied it, so I have no means to relate it to sounds, let alone meanings.

So, when people say, "I can't read Perl", it only tells me they haven't studied it.

-- Randal Schwartz
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Posted Dec 9, 2010 18:51 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

Curiously even though I haven't studied Python, I don't remember the last time I had difficulty reading a Python script, whereas even though I did study Perl, quite often I have difficulties reading Perl.

No, this can't be because Perl is harder to read than Python, impossible!

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Posted Dec 13, 2010 16:32 UTC (Mon) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link]

And in natural languages, I have never learned Interlingua, but still I can read it...

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