Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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

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.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.