• What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

    Erik Naggum: What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
    "Using Lisp to Call another program in linux?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 11, 2002.