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

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.