"You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all."

“I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.”

“echo $package has manual pages available in source form.echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.”

“Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.”

“We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.”

“Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.”

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