Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
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.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?