[ivix]

These days when perl enthusiasts say things like 'its terse' and 'there's more than one way to do it' and 'you can find a quick and short way to do interesting things' the reaction is more of faint nausea than anything else. Probably not what they were going for.

[chrisseaton]

Imagine explaining to someone that the object system is based on a pun-name about priests. You'd feel like an idiot. Nobody's got time for that kind of wackiness these days.

[dale_glass]

You mean the 'bless' keyword? Yeah, that's a bit quirky, but lots of programming language keywords are kinda metaphorical anyway. The heck is a "void"?

[zengargoyle]

Tell them the object system was stolen from Python and they'll really freak out.