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.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

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