a comment from myself in 1998:

- think about the notion of "property" [...] as i have written it
last winter. bring it farther, including types, array-objects,
constraints, and comments. GOSH, I really should have settled on Perl from
the start instead of muddying with C and (a-restricted-subset-of) C++.
This smells like some (future) concepts of Hybris appearing recursively
within itself.

replying to myself in 1999:

- grammatically/semantically, though Perl has several notable improvements
over C, it has lots of funny things I don't want:
	* procedure parameters are array elements, which is good,
	  but array indexes have no easy way to be associated to local
	  constants, which is extremely bad in this particular case.
	* punctuation on variables:
	  BASIC had suffixes for simple-typing. PERL has prefixes for
	  container-typing (scalar/array/hash). I'd prefer prefixes for
	  _namespacing_, which should be seen as namespace operators of
	  the same kind as "::" in Perl/C++/Tcl. I'd rather fallback to
	  no such punctuation at all (C).
	* all object methods want a zeroth first parameter I have to
	  name myself.

- Perl bigots describe Perl (mis)features as Postmodernism. There's often
only one way to do it, too.

- in the C.S. world, Perl isn't as Postmodern as the Open-Source
methodology (thanks to Alex for this one). I'm not so sure about this
stuff. There seems to be a contradiction. However, ["A"  and "not A"]
isn't always false (as in: the definition of "not" isn't clear in natural
language). And most probably I don't know what I'm talking about.

 - "recursively within itself" is habitually called "recursively".


