I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.