But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.