My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

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.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

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