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> I never found Perl objects to be confusing, but the documentation could be so.

Well, tell Larry Wall; he's the one that thinks objects confuse people. I thought Perl's object system was a little baroque, but Perl is baroque.

> Lua is just fun. It's a language designed almost like HyperCard for minimal barriers.

I think in a slightly better world, JavaScript would not exist, and we'd be using Lua. (In an even better world, we'd have a very nice bytecode VM.)

> Then again, this also gets graphics art majors (Hitler was an art student) into writing code, which is bad.

Well, if Hitler had learned to code, maybe he wouldn't have been such a fuck-up that he needed to kill himself.

> PHP was awesome when it was a template system for Perl. They tried to make both Perl and PHP into Ruby, missed out on that goal and also adulterated the languages.

I don't know, Perl 6 looked all right. PHP never did.