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

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

[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.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.