Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

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

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

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.