We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

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.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.