What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.