Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!