I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.

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

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.