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Don't blame Perl. It's the same as in C. IEEE says we have to do this. — Anonymous

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative. — Larry Wall

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

Perl programming is an *empirical* science! — Larry Wall

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. — Larry Wall

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

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

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? — Larry Wall

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise. — Sondra Perl

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

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose. — Larry Wall

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C. — Larry Wall

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

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. — Larry Wall

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

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

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

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

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. — Martin Lewis Perl

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

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

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. — Martin Lewis Perl

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. — Martin Lewis Perl

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. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. — Martin Lewis Perl

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. — Martin Lewis Perl

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

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. — Larry Wall

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

My parents were determined to move into the middle class. — Martin Lewis Perl

To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. — Larry Wall

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

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise. — Bruce Eckel

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. — Martin Lewis Perl

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is — Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse. — Larry Wall

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

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

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. — Martin Lewis Perl

Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience. — C.J.S. Hayward

Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is — Larry Wall

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

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. — Erik Naggum

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

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

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

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. — Larry Wall

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

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. — Martin Lewis Perl

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

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