I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

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.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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.