To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

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