Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

Programmers can be lazy.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.