Comment Quote by Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

— Larry Wall

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

— Larry Wall

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

— Larry Wall

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

— 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

Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise.

— Bruce Eckel

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

If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise.

— Anonymous

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

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— 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

“you can do everything in Python that you can in Perl, but”

— Mark Lutz