Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.