Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

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

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun