It's documented in The Book, somewhere... - Larry Wall

Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches.

I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

I simultaneously believe that languages are wonderful and awful. You have to hold both of those. Ugly things can be beautiful. And beautiful can get ugly very fast. You know, take Lisp. You know, it's the most beautiful language in the world. At least up until Haskell came along. (laughter) But, you know, every program in Lisp is just ugly. I don't figure how that works.