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.

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

I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.