Yep, it originates from Larry Wall commenting many years ago that "perl5 is a velociraptor - what we need now is an acceloraptor" and the quote being rediscover

Yep, it originates from Larry Wall commenting many years ago that "perl5 is a velociraptor - what we need now is an acceloraptor" and the quote being rediscovered later ... followed by a lot of us deciding that "not amazingly recent but still epically awesome" worked for us.