Interesting snip from a perl.com article
[1/1] from: greggirwin::mindspring::com at: 12-Feb-2004 15:34
Found this in a series of notes on Perl6.
...Austin [Hastings] thinks that Perl 6's main 'cultural' impact will be
grammars, arguing that in 10 years time 'getting coders to stop parsing
characters, getting them instead to think, code, and word in terms of
sentences" or "paragraphs" will be considered a turning point.' Don't
tell Austin this, but I remember Ward Cunningham saying something
similar (but less emphatic) to me after Damian's Perl6::Rules
presentation at OSCON 2003."
-- Gregg