We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

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