Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

Programmers can be lazy.

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

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.