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Comment on English.rb: stop writing Ruby like Perl

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Wow, I never knew Ruby's predefined global variables were so cryptically named. (Not a ruby developer)

Is there any sane reason it was designed this way (the language I mean, not this fix)

ISTR (and I've never had much knowledge of Perl), the magic globals were lifted directly from Perl and were intended to support Perl->Ruby transition.

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