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.

People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.