The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.