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.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

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

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?