I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

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.

I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

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

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

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