The tech world is experiencing an identity crisis. Pundits are shouting from the digital rooftops that traditional coding is over, replaced by natural human language interfaces. They're calling it a radical new paradigm.
When Larry Wall created Perl, he didn't just build a language to sit closer to the metal; he built it to sit closer to speech. While computer science worshiped at the altar of rigid mathematical purism, Perl introduced a context-aware structure built on nou…