True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.