Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?