Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

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.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

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

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