If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry WallI still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry WallSo many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.
Larry Wall