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

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.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.