Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement

Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. :-)

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…