[ZeroGravitas]

I think you're referring to this maybe:

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

Perl, the first postmodern computer language

Though its a bit deeper than your summary so perhaps not.

[pasbesoin]

While I have not read the OP (yet... it's looking kind of long), the title immediately reminded me of Larry's talk/essay. Which I have read, in the past, and considered quite worthwhile. Thanks for digging up the link to that.