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I once accidentally piped an SSL certificate into Perl and got 40+ warnings before it realised it wasn't Perl. I'm not joking.

That's why Larry Wall said he'll be certified before Perl is (when asked about the prospect of standardizing the language).

It's one of his well-known quotes.

I posted a link to many of his quotes:

Now try piping Perl into itself. #@$%&^*!

A homopipic / homeopathic language?

Similiia similibus curentur.