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

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

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.