Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

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?

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.