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

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

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

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

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.