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Wes Groleau wrote:
> Sometimes, reading a perl book, I am surprised that it's
> able to do something Ada-like (though not as pretty to
> Ada-accustomed eyes).

I remember hearing a rumour that Larry Wall seriously considered writing Perl 6
in Ada.  One of his quotes on the language:

    I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an infinite
    loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada the typical
    infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation.

--gvc