Aspect Quote by Jamie Zawinski

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

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

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

— Mike Loukides

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

— Larry Wall

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

— Larry Wall

“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.”

— Philip Greenspun

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

— 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

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

— Neal Stephenson