Perl did not get where it is by ignoring psychological factors.

I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems. :-)

On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

Well, sure, I explicitly mentioned 'vtables' last time I brought this up. But a single pointer is fairly paltry, as tables go. :-)

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. :-/

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small…