I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.