: But for some things, Perl just isn't the optimal choice. (yet) :-)

Odd that we think definitions are definitive. :-)

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.

In my first year I was taught about the slide rule. They said, 'The slide rule is important. Without it you can do nothing. The slide rule is the modern weapon…

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

'It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?'