Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.