Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

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.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

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

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.