Larry Wall Quotes on Programming language
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Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)
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That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'. :-))
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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Perl will always provide the null.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.