I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?