The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Of course, this being Perl, we could always take both approaches. :-)

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is i…