Perl Language -- a language not originally intended for the web but now inextricably part of it. << Perl Advocacy
it seems to have been mostly extricated over the past decade
Larry Wall - Creator of the Language
Ward Cunningham - Creator of this Wiki in Perl Language
Randal Schwartz - the original Just Another Perl Hacker
Schwartzian Transform -- a clever Perl sorting idiom
See original on c2.com 