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

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

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.

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

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.