If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

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