I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

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

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.