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From the Frontiers of Research to the Heart of the Enterprise
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
July 22-26, 2002 -- San Diego, CA

Apache
Session
Tagmemics
Allison Randal, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Track: Emerging Topics
Date: Thursday, July 25
Time: 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Location: Sea Breeze II
One unique aspect of Perl is the fact that it was designed by a linguist. Every step in the language's development has been guided by a desire to make it not only efficient for computers, but natural for humans. Tagmemics is the theory of linguistics that has had the most influence on Larry Wall, from the earliest stages of the language to the current development of Perl 6. This talk will explain the basic principles of tagmemics, with examples from spoken languages and from Perl.