The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

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

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?