Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?