Esperanto always struck me as more perl-like with each part of speech having its own suffix like perl has $ for scalars, @ for arrays, and % for hashes. Though perl is probably more like a bunch of pidgins...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I was about to say.

Perl 5 is like Esperanto: borrowed neat features from many languages, somehow kinda vaguely making a bit of sense. Enjoyed some popularity back in the day but is kind of niche nowadays.

PHP is like Volapük: same deal, but without the linguistic competence and failing miserably at being consistent.

Raku (Perl 6) is like Esperanto reformation efforts: Noble and interesting scholarly pursuits, with dozens of fans around the multiverse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Esperanto's equivalent would probably be Haskell.

Python is probably more like Spanish. Very easy basics, but then people from different regions of where it's has spread out barely understand each other

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's probably a similar learning speed

[–] refalo -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody mentioned number of speakers though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No, but the adoption rate is likely related to how useful the language is?