[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a bill… - Jamie Zawinski

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[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

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Jamie Zawinski (JWZ; born November 3, 1968) is a computer programmer known for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser.

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Alternative Names: jwz • James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski

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