“Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [ Was that sufficiently incendiary?]”

—  Larry Wall

[1992Jan10.201804.11926@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

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