http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=1217349

Prompted by this comic at Commit Strip.

Me? (Not that I'm an expert.) Because Perl was handy, extremely useful, and didn't require a separate compile phase. Because I could solve other people's problems with it. Because it was general purpose, and not specifically geared for stream picking / editing. Because it was free. Because it was more fun than any other language I knew at the time.

-QM
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of