Behavior Quote by Erik Naggum

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's…

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

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…

— Larry Wall

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

— 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

“Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.”

— Mike Loukides

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…

— Larry Wall

“I’ve programmed in all kinds of languages, said the tough old hacker as he eased up to the bar, and it don’t matter which…

— Paul Graham

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

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

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…

— Larry Wall