Parsing Perl 3: Perl and Minimalism
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
One Idea to Rule Them All
Ever since the 50's, the fashion in language design has been minimalism. Languages were designed around paradigms, and paradigms were judged on elegance. If your choice of paradigm was lists, the result was LISP. If you decided on strings, you invented SNOBOL. Arrays, you wound up with APL. If …