Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.