I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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.