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

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

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.

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