You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

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

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.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.