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Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, has recently co-written a book on the new computer language Go. Over his career, Kernighan has co-written some of the most influential books for ...

An experiment by computer science researchers shows that Perl, a major commercial programming language, is no more intuitive to use than a fake language with a completely random syntax. What gives?