Comment by shagie

MUMPS and Perl were both influenced by BASIC.

Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting... https://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html/

> BASIC

> Now, however it was initially intended, I think BASIC turned out to be one of the first major scripting languages, especially the extended version that DEC put onto its minicomputers called BASIC/PLUS, which happily included recursive functions with arguments. I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I’m permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right.

> But I’m not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I’m just better at it than most. :-)