Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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.
Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.