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

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

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.

Programmers can be lazy.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.