We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Programmers can be lazy.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

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

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

I'm not too concerned about the future of Perl after me, because I see how these people are interacting with each other and even when I'm not there, they are helping each other and solving each other's problems in a way that I could not do, even if I were there.