People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
Even the White House has a press agent.
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.