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.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.