The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.