Perl, the first postmodern computer languageThank you all for coming. I was hoping the title of this talk would scare away everyone who shouldn't be here. Obviously I should have made up a scarier title... Perl meets Godzilla? Bambi meets Perl? I just did an interview for Feed Magazine. When I read their intro to it, I was interested to see that they made reference to my ``curious speeches.'' I'll take that as a compliment. Why I take it as
