The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.