I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

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

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.