Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

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

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).