> The "slightly different variation" has a huge impact on how you write code.
From my years of experience with a language that has both variations (Perl) - it doesn't have much impact on how you write code at all, except making the language a bit more flexible and expressive in rare situations.
I consider usability of programming languages to be rather important and would like wrong ideas not to be claimed as terminology there nor conventions. Wrong people shouldn't be pushing wrong terms into the field they have no understanding of.
From my years of experience with a language that has both variations (Perl) - it doesn't have much impact on how you write code at all, except making the language a bit more flexible and expressive in rare situations.
I consider usability of programming languages to be rather important and would like wrong ideas not to be claimed as terminology there nor conventions. Wrong people shouldn't be pushing wrong terms into the field they have no understanding of.