> I'm pretty darned sure that Rob Pike (creator of Go) and Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) know a few things about computer languages that the rest of us haven't sussed out yet. If these guys think the world needs a new language, it's worth finding out why. (And if you do know more about programming languages than these two? Well, it's honor to have you reading my article, Mr. Wall!)

Larry Wall is the ne plus ultra of programming language design. This is satire, right? Please tell me this is satire.