"You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner."

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So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

— Larry Wall