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.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

Programmers can be lazy.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

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