The English Module

Remembering cryptic names such as $0 may be a little difficult. To make things easier, someone wrote the module English. This module lets you use more descriptive names such as $PROGRAM_NAME. All the special variables (both English and cryptic) are documented in the Perl documentation page perlvar.

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