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.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

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.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.