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

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.