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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.

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