Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.