[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

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