Jamie W Zawinski on How Perl Unicode Sucks

By Xah Lee. Date: .
use bytes;
# Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his ass sideways.
            # Perl 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible
            # errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this.

This is dated around 2005.

from the source code of WebCollage http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ (1998), by Jamie W Zawinski (born 1968)