“> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.”

—  Larry Wall

[1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com, 1992]
Usenet postings, 1992

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