Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.