LISP

There was a thread in comp.emacs.xemacs and alt.religion.emacs in which the idea of embedding Perl into Emacs was proposed. (My first-thoughts comment on this idea is that it's fairly silly, since Emacs already has a powerful lisp interpreter in it. Lisp is odd, though, in that it's a vastly more regular language than Perl, yet arguably less readable. But I digress...).

they should have just used munger¹ instead.

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1: http://www.mammothcheese.ca/man.html}