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“Perl is the most popular web programming language. Over a million people program with Perl. That is approximately one Perl programmer for every resident of Hyderabad, Pakistan or Donetsk, Ukraine.”
— John P. Flynt (2006) Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide. p. 7
“And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?”
— Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python
“There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.”
— Jeff Polk quoted in Donn Seeley (2004) "How Not to Write Fortran in Any Language." Queue. Dec/Jan 2004-05. p. 58
“If you can't do , you can't do biology, and Perl is the biologist's favorite language for doing bioinformatics.”
— James Tisdall (2010) Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics
“The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. (On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.)”
— Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2000) Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 4
“Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.”
— Larry Wall in "Perl style guide" perldoc.perl.org, 2005-2013

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“Perl is the most popular web programming language. Over a million people program with Perl. That is approximately one Perl programmer for every resident of Hyderabad, Pakistan or Donetsk, Ukraine.”
— John P. Flynt (2006) Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide. p. 7
“And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?”
— Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python
“There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.”
— Jeff Polk quoted in Donn Seeley (2004) "How Not to Write Fortran in Any Language." Queue. Dec/Jan 2004-05. p. 58
“If you can't do , you can't do biology, and Perl is the biologist's favorite language for doing bioinformatics.”
— James Tisdall (2010) Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics
“The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. (On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.)”
— Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2000) Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 4
“Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.”
— Larry Wall in "Perl style guide" perldoc.perl.org, 2005-2013

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.