Interestingly, I parsed thurston's response not as an appeal to authority, but as self-mocking humor (i.e. "wow, if Perl 6 does that too, maybe my PhD was unwar

Interestingly, I parsed thurston's response not as an appeal to authority, but as self-mocking humor (i.e. "wow, if Perl 6 does that too, maybe my PhD was unwarranted!"). I guess English parsing is non-deterministic too... :-)