Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

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

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.