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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.