This is a quote from Larry Wall, the creator of Perl--oops, I guess not, it's from Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen:

"Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life."
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