It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.