I just read Coders at Work and here's an excerpt from the interview of L. Peter Deutsch about this quote:<p><i>Seibel: I think Larry Wall described it as bowl of oatmeal with fingernail clippings in it.</i><p><i>Deutsch: Well, my description of Perl is something that looks like it came out of the wrong end of a dog. I think Larry Wall has a lot of nerve talking about language design -- Perl is an abomination as a language.  But let's not go there. (...)</i>