Clive George wrote:
On 07/05/2010 11:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

PERL is neither fish nor fowl nor fresh red herring. Just foul.

Perl is great. It's possible to use it in a foul manner, but it's also
possible to use sensibly.

Its a tool for sysadmins with pretensions towards programing.

It's a great tool for programmers doing sysadmin type tasks, as well as
little problems.

Real programmers use a compiler.

http://xkcd.com/378/
http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Professional programmers use the appropriate tool for the job.

Which is almost never PERL.