"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."

"We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed."

"I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon."

"Call me bored, but don't call me boring."

"Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language."

"I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving."

"They can always run stderr through uniq."

"Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already."

"So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL."

"If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you."

"To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching."

"Well, I think Perl should run faster than C."

"It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun."

"Perl will always provide the null."

"It's hard to tune heavily tuned code."

"Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something."

"Reserve your abuse for your true friends."

"There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin."

"Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose."

"Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?"

"If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into die 'Illegal division by zero"

"Portability should be the default."

"And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'."

"(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing..."

"Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?"

"Perhaps they will have to outlaw sending random lists of words. fee fie foe foo"

"Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map! Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations... Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!? Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'... Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL."

": - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking..."

"Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support."

"I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-("

"I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room."

"Beauty? What's that?"

"The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet."

"Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine."

"For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words."

"People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it."

"Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'."

"The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'."

"Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak."

"It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend."

"There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree."

"You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so."

"Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right."