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.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.