Michael Carman wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> 
> Perl is non-orthogonal by design. From 'perldoc perl'
> 
>     "The language is intended to be practical (easy to use,
>      efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
>      minimal)."

Moreover, the Perl language has not been designed from the ground up
(like Java, for example); it's a lot simpler to learn if you're already
used to sh, sed, awk and C.

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