"Perl tries to put the complexity where it will do the least harm, and where its victims may have the best chance of surviving it. " "Ultimately, I think that we’re pretty happy with Perl 6 being the “World’s Worst ML”, so long as it can also (simultaneously) be: the “World’s Worst Smalltalk”, the “World’s Worst Lisp”, the “World’s Worst Snobol”, the “World’s Worst QCL”, the “World’s Worst Erlang”, the “World’s Worst Prolog”, the “World’s Worst Python”, the “World’s Worst C”, and even the “World’s Worst Perl 5”."

At least Perl has values.