Larry Wall (creator of Perl) has a really long (but fantastic) speech on modernism and post-modernism that I found helpful. It is transcribed somewhere and wort

Larry Wall (creator of Perl) has a really long (but fantastic) speech on modernism and post-modernism that I found helpful. It is transcribed somewhere and worth the read. Edit: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html