Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.