Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

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.