All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

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

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

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.