[Perl] combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

@ColinTheMathmo

"Perl is the programming language analog to vise-grip pliers:
Nearly always the *wrong* tool for the job, but wow is it useful..."

@ColinTheMathmo

Also? Spend a few months in the bowels of Autoconf + M4 and I guarantee you'll stop complaining about Perl...

@wrog @ColinTheMathmo I prefer autoconf and m4 over Perl. Autoconf has a clear use case for which there is no comparable replacement. For Perl, there’s many comparable replacements.