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.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

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

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

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