There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

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.

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.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.