'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Perl, mind you, isn't much better. My loyalty to it is failing: I can't write anything without looking it up. The latest problem I had was that the break keyword should actually have been the last keyword, even thought the break worked perfectly fine.

And don't even get me started on the 5 ways you can call a subroutine:

a();
&a();
a;
&a;
goto &a;

I mean, yes, all five are slightly different, but for Crissakes! And typeglobs? And automatically flattened lists UNLESS you use references, in which case it's $var{$something} or $var->$something... Grr.