I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.