Believe Quote by Erik Naggum

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

— Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

— 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 has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— 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

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

— Larry Wall

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 programming is an *empirical* science!

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

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

— 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…

— Erik Naggum

I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have…

— Erik Naggum