Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.