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.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

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