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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Re: Ruminations on the future of Perl
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Date: 28 Jun 91 15:04:13 GMT
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In-reply-to: worley@compass.com's message of 27 Jun 91 20:34:39 GMT

Here's the quote I was looking for:

    A programming language cooked up haphazardly as a collection of
    briliant ideas is a menace to good programming methodology.  It is
    also more difficult to implement, so the odds favor an unreliable
    compiler, whose unreliable parts programmers learn to avoid through
    bitter experience...
    -- Harland Mills, "Software Productivity"

(He was referring to PL/1.)

Dale