Perl was born as an NSA project, this old HN thread has some good references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

Perl was born as an NSA project, this old HN thread has some good references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 As for as I know the only "official" reference to that is the "classified" and "don't ask" in perlhist.