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

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

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 natural languages work.