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.

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

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.