We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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.