People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

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

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

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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