Incident to the previous post, you might enjoy Larry Wall interviewed here on perl as a glue language and perl people as glue people (no it's not a glue-sniffing pun), multi paradigm aware integrators of things.
As I thought about that it struck me how very apt the term 'glue language' is in the case of perl. Often when you're trying to stick things together with glue you find that the glue ends up sticking to you instead in a big mess. Perl does that sometimes.