Perl

thumb|right|Camelia, the logo for the Perl 6 project. Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier __NOTOC__ CONTENT : A - F , G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links Quotes Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author A - F 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 G - L Perl is the most popular language for creating CGI programs. Perl is the acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language. Every computer platform supports this language and hence widely used. K. L. James (2004) The Internet: A User's Guide. p. 192 Perl is the ultimate language for text manipulation, and it has powerful tools for manipulation of lists and other data structures. James M. Kretchmar (2004) Open Source Network Administration. p. 215 And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide? Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python M - R Last night, I drifted off while reading a Lisp book. Suddenly, I was bathed in a suffusion of blue.At once, just like they said, I felt a great enlightenment. I saw the naked structure of Lisp code unfold before me.(My god. It's full of "car"s.)The patterns and metapatterns danced. Syntax faded, and I swam in the purity of quantified conception. Of ideas manifest.Truly, this was the language from which the Gods wrought the universe! [God replies:] "No, it's not. [...] I mean, ostensibly, yes. Honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl." Randall Munroe, XKCD 224 Some said the world should be in Perl, Some said in Lisp. Now, having given both a whirl, I held with those who favored Perl. But I fear we passed to men A disappointing founding myth. And should we write it all again, I'd end it with A close-paren. Randall Munroe, "With Apologies to Robert Frost", XKCD 312, in a parody of Robert Frost As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down. Peter Norvig, August 2000, on comp.lang.functional Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl. Rob Pike (2004) in interview at slashdot.com, Oct 18 2004 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 S - Z Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python, more flexible than Ruby, more typeful than C#, more robust than Java, and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP. Audrey Tang Perl Internationalization and Haskell: An Interview with Autrijus Tang If you can't do bioinformatics, you can't do biology, and Perl is the biologist's favorite language for doing bioinformatics. James Tisdall (2010) Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. Larry Wall (1990) 9682@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV 1990 A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2000) Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. xviii 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 [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby. Larry Wall "The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 : In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with xscreensaver. Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall, cited in Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington (2004) Perl Cookbook second edition p. 150 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 See also Programming languages External links Category:Programming languages