You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Information wants to be useful.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.