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.

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

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.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

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