Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

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

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

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?

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.