I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!

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.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.