Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.