So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

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?

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.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.