To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

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

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.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.