While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

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

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.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.