On the topic of old computer languages… I’ve recently been going back through books on the Perl programming language.  It was one of the first scripting languages I tried to learn back in high school… but I never felt like I really understood it.  Years later, I realize now that it really is a confusing programming language.  Even though it’s fairly simple to get up and going with Perl, it’s such a creative (or expressive,) language that programs can easily become confusing pieces of mangled artwork.  Perl.

I still like it, though.