Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.