In a very simplified way, the Purgatory is a "mini-hell", just before you go to heaven. :) I was referring to this. Articles that receive lots of low votes go there, before they go to hell or heaven :) Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

I remember reading something about creating a Gel Button[^] (i.e. a button that looks a lot like those in OS X) using Avalon, but I don't think that's what's being referred to.