Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.