I find that entire Usenet conversation very interesting for all sorts of quotes, far and beyond what is mentioned in the blog post about Perl/RE:

> [...] In particular, I was baffled that

> there was no mention _whatsoever_ of advanced languages such as

> Scheme, ML, and Haskell--languages that to me seem most promising as

> foundations for safe, efficient, and expressive prototyping/scripting

> as well as general purpose programming.

With the benefit of historical hindsight...

The link seems to be broken, it gives a 404 error currently