“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.