Perl Quotes

“Programming languages”

“There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.”

“Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.”

“A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.”

“Wikipedia: Perl”

“And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?”

“Wiktionary: Perl”

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

“Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.”

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

“Perl is the ultimate language for text manipulation, and it has powerful tools for manipulation of lists and other data structures.”

“Perl is the most popular language for creating CGI programs. Perl is the acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Every computer platform supports this language and hence widely used.”

“Perl is the most popular web programming language. Over a million people program with Perl. That is approximately one Perl programmer for every resident of Hyderabad, Pakistan or Donetsk, Ukraine.”

“If you can't do bioinformatics, you can't do biology, and Perl is the biologist's favorite language for doing bioinformatics.”

“As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.”

“Some said the world should be in Perl,
Some said in Lisp.
Now, having given both a whirl,
I held with those who favored Perl.
But I fear we passed to men
A disappointing founding myth.
And should we write it all again,
I'd end it with
A close-paren.”

“Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python, more flexible than Ruby, more typeful than C#, more robust than Java, and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP.”

“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”

“The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. (On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.)”

“Last night, I drifted off while reading a Lisp book. Suddenly, I was bathed in a suffusion of blue.
At once, just like they said, I felt a great enlightenment. I saw the naked structure of Lisp code unfold before me.
(My god. It's full of "car"s.)
The patterns and metapatterns danced. Syntax faded, and I swam in the purity of quantified conception. Of ideas manifest.
Truly, this was the language from which the Gods wrought the universe!
[God replies:] "No, it's not. [...] I mean, ostensibly, yes. Honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl."”