If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real.

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

What is reasonable is real

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown

Cherishing Jesus as gain above all people, above all wealth, above all powers.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

whether you have training or not, the way to make your look make sense is to surround yourself with the things you love.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.