"The features I wanted to add were negative features. I think all of us as language designers have borrowed things. You know, we all steal from each other's languages all the time. And often we steal good things. And for some reason, we also steal bad things. [Like what?] Like regular expression syntax. [Oh, yeah, I'll give you that one.] Like the C precedence table. [Ok, another.] Ok, these are things I could not fix in Perl 5, and we did fix in Perl 6. [Ahh, ok. Awesome!]" -Larry Wall