why ; ?

[Robert Fraser]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> IMHO, Perl is a _lot_ easier to (write, read, maintain) than PHP. When I 
>> was writing PHP for a resarch project, I found myself literally spending 
>> hours tracing down bugs caused by typos in variable names, but a simple 
>> "use strict;" in Perl fixes that completely.
> 
> Well, it was just an example. Perhaps a poorly chosen one. I'm really not as 
> familiar with Perl as I am with others like PHP, VB*, Python, etc. Feel free 
> to take "Perl" and insert "{name of some shitty language here}".

Sorry; I know that wasn't the point of your post. Perl is just unjustly 
maligned because it _can_ be confusing and is often used badly. But the 
language is actually quite well-designed.