Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

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

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.