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

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.