The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

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.