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From: Lex Spoon <lex@cc.gatech.edu>
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Michael Livshin <mlivshin@yahoo.com> writes:

> John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Mark VandeWettering wrote:
> > > I am constantly confused by justification.  First of all, precisely what
> > > feature of perl is similar to natural languages?
> > 
> > You can write poetry in it? :-)
> 
> there's nothing natural about poetry.


And it's not specific to perl..................


-Lex